Food and love can be found in one place. Olive oil is a staple in the Mediterranean diet. It can be used in sauteing, baking, dressing, or dipping, basically cooking anything except in high temperatures (like no deep frying or major pan frying). I love olive oil, and here are my reasons:
1) super healthy, great for your skin and does not leave you feeling fat like saturated fats or vegetable oils do
2) versatile - growing up we really only used corn oil, but olive oil works really well in Asian cooking or any type of cooking
3) look for extra virgin and cold pressed/first pressed -- this process is not the conventional, chemically refined way that vegetable, corn, canola, Crisco, or other cheap oils are made
4) with some salt and freshly ground pepper, olive oil is perfect for dipping that french baguette or Italian bread. And, because olive oil is not saturated fat, you can drench your bread and really enjoy.
Why else for olive oil? For all those Claudia Bassols fans out there from the TV show Spain On the Road Again, she says that basically every morning she has a piece of bread with some salt, maybe pepper, and TONS of olive oil -- and man, she does put a lot on. She says you can put as much olive oil as you want, because it just won't make you fat. Of course, I don't think she means you can drink it in obscene amounts, but I do think she is right from my personal experience, and she shows it.
Check her out at http://www.claudiabassols.com/. She has beauty, personality and warmth. One of the most beautiful women in the world, in my opinion.
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