Videos: Olives
Olive Colors | The Color of California Olives
In the third segment of our series on California Olives, we learn that all olives are green while they’re growing, but different varieties turn different colors at maturity. For example,...
After the Olives Are Cured: Inspection, Packaging & Shipping
Finally the fully cured olives are ready to leave their brine tanks and set off to take their uncommonly delicious place on your table. First they must be sorted, washed and pitted. Then they travel to our Pennsylvania facility for packing before going on to stores and homes around the U.S.
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Calamata Olives: How to Identify a Calamata Olive
In the last segment on Olives, Anthony briefly explains how to identify a true Calamata olive. Real Calamatas are deep purple to eggplant in color, with an almond-shaped body and elongated tip. Learn the field marks in this video.
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Olive Varieties | Flavor Profiles of 4 Types of Olives
Next Anthony shows us four different types of olives, with flavors from mellow to intense. The green Bella Di Cerignola olive from Puglia is a good olive for those new to olive-tasting, while the Sicilian-cured Sevillano olive is grown in California and is...
How Should an Olive Taste?
In the third segment of the Olive series, Anthony explains that although olives are often cured in salt or brine, they should not taste salty. Olives are best prepared by washing away the brine and coating them with a light oil, with or without...
Sevillano Olive Sizes
Next we visit the DeLallo curing plant, where the olives are sorted and sized on arrival. We use the top four sizes of olives to make our Sevillano olives and stuffed olives—Extra Large, Jumbo, Colossal and Super Colossal...
Curing Olives in Brine | Olive Curing Takes Time & Brine
In the tenth part of the California Olive series, we look inside the huge brine tanks where the Sevillano olives are cured. Each tank can hold up to 50,000 pounds of olives! Watch as the olives are monitored and adjusted during the 12-16...
The Olive Picker: Starting the Olive Harvesting & Curing Process
In the eighth part of the California Olive series, harvest has begun! We watch the olives picked by hand into large buckets, then transferred within 24 hours to the DeLallo/Ehmann plant in Orrville, California, where they are graded, sorted and...
Hand Picking Olives | Why We Pick Our Olives by Hand
Olives can be harvested by hand or by machine. In the sixth part of our series on California Olives, we learn why DeLallo harvests all our Sevillano olives by hand.
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Our Olive Growers & Pickers | Olive Farm Partners
In the seventh segment of our California Olive series, we take you into the olive orchards to meet some of our growers. These experienced farmers explain how they care for their trees, and how knowledgeable and professional their pickers...
The Olive Harvest: Harvesting Sevillano Olives
In the fifth segment of the California Olive series, we visit the olive orchard during harvest time. Sevillano olives are picked from mid-September to early November. Experience tells the growers when the time is right.
To find out...
Sevillano Olives | Learn About the Sevillano Olive
In the second part of the series, you’ll learn about the Sevillano olive, a large, firm, meaty olive that is perfect for curing in the Sicilian style. The Sevillano is the olive DeLallo uses to make all our stuffed olives.
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The Sevillano Olive Tree | California Olive Trees
Now we pay a visit to the northern Sacramento Valley, which has ideal conditions for growing the Sevillano olive—terrain, weather and rainfall similar to the Mediterranean. Olive trees begin bearing when they are five years old, and...
California Olives | Facts & Information about the Calilfornia Olive
In the first segment of our eleven-part California Olive series, we meet Frieda Ehmann, pioneer of the California black ripe olive curing method. Frieda founded Ehmann Olive Company back in 1897, starting with a few barrels of olives in her basement and quickly...
Curing Olives | Olive Curing Information
In this segment, Anthony describes the many ways olives can be cured. All olives start off green when they’re growing, but they mature to black, brown, purple or other colors, as you’ll see from the bowls of glistening olives in our...
What Are Olives? Olive Facts & Information
In the first segment of the five-part Olive series, Anthony DeLallo explains that there’s more to olives than the pimento-stuffed fruits from a jar. Olives come in many colors, varieties, flavors and textures. Although inedible when first harvested, olives are transformed by the curing process.
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