Olive oil isn’t just for making salad dressings, folks. It has historically been used in a myriad of surprising and often overlooked ways.
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Your Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Is Fake
Did you know that the Mob makes money hand over fist by selling you fake olive oil? According to Tom Mueller, an intrepid journalist who wrote a scandalously revealing book on the subject, 70% of the extra virgin olive oil sold is adulterated — cut with cheaper oils. Apparently, the mob’s been at it so long, that even most so-called “experts” can’t tell a real olive oil from a fake olive oil based on taste alone.