For Thanksgiving, olive oil is flowing in the creative minds and kitchens of chefs and home cooks alike. EVOO elevates holiday flavors without changing the beloved classics.
Change is the Butter on Life’s Bread
Some may need some gentle coercion through the clever development of products to adopt heart-healthy EVOOs instead of Butter.
Extra virgin olive oil is the only preservative in - and forms a quarter of - Seville’s traditional ‘Torta de Aceite de Castilleja de la Cuesta’, which has gone from a home-made pastry to a product exported to five continents.
Olive Oil in Custards
When the flavoring is your favorite extra virgin olive oil, the once common vanilla custard becomes an uncommon olive oil flavored cream with a velvety finish.
With a push into the limelight from cutting-edge pastry chefs, olive oil is becoming a favorite dessert ingredient in restaurants and home kitchens everywhere.
Sweet Role for Olive Oil
While a quality extra virgin is now essential in any decent restaurant, perhaps the full embrace of olive oil is most poignantly revealed in its new surprising role: as dessert.