Rightio. Making your own pickled olives is not only fun and quite easy, it’s also very satisfying on some sub-conscious level. We’ve been pickling olives since around the Copper Age (4,000 BC), so it is truly a basic human foodstuff, and one which has stood the test of time. When olives come off the tree, they are pretty inedible (although not poisonous) due to the presence of oleuropein, a glycoside which protects the olive fruit from the unwanted advances of various animals. It’s worth trying just the one untreated olive sometime… a memorable experience. You won’t be lining up for a second bite, though. Read More
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