Mediterranean cuisine

With help from the EU, foreign experts and the state, olive oil farmers into southern Montenegro are harvesting bigger profits and better-quality oil from orchards that date back thousands of years.

Local pasta manufacturers have enjoyed strong external demand for their products this year as their exports rose 9 percent to $252 million in the first five months of 2019.

Olive trees have dotted Turkey's landscape for centuries. Olive oil is a staple of Turkish cuisine and a key ingredient in the country's famous handmade olive oil soap.

The suitors of Greek food company Minerva are a leading pasta producer, the world's number 1 producer of stuffed vine leaves, and a fund that has invested in many local companies.

Until last month, my house was surrounded on four sides by olive groves. Now, there are olive trees on three sides. On the fourth, a building site. The Greek proverb is: To cut down an olive tree is like killing a man. If so, then last month a mass murderer committed a chainsaw massacre to make way for four holiday apartments.

The significant challenges facing the olive oil industry in Greece and other parts of the world were more than apparent at the last Athena International Olive Oil Competition (ATHIOOC) - which took place in the Peloponnesian town of Nafplio last month - resulting in a 17 percent reduction in the number of distinctions awarded from last year, even though the number of contestants was more or les

The Active Users Association identified imitations of quality olive oil on the Bulgarian market. The survey includes 28 brands, all of them being bought in supermarkets in Sofia.

Cyprus is urging the European Union to speed up the process granting full name protection to halloumi cheese, the east Mediterranean island nation's top culinary export.
Cyprus government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou told The Associated Press on Wednesday that authorities are pressing the European Commission to speed things up.

Turkey exported 1.2 million tons of pasta worth $600 million in 2018, said the chairman of the Pasta Industrialists Association of Turkey (TMSD) on Dec. 27.

The Athens municipal authority will be handing out food and other essentials to thousands of residents in the Greek capital starting on Monday.