651978 Sun Sep 13 03:26:53 -0700 2009 6 42 U.K./Ireland 0 5025897 The Food Magazine runs a storys about how Palestinian farmers are managing, in spite of all the well known difficulties, to export their products to places like the UK. The major product is Zaytoun olive oil and I've been buying it for some years, from specialist shops. It is, simply, the best I have come across. Not "cooking" oil - but one to keep for dressings or just to dip bread. Fab. For local distributors: www.zaytoun.org Sun Sep 13 03:26:54 -0700 2009 154102 Harters 1 5025898 it is lovely oil, i'd agree. btw, here's a post from earlier this morning: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/651976 Sun Sep 13 03:31:35 -0700 2009 5025897 11086 howler 2 5026054 I've chipped in there as well. Sun Sep 13 06:55:52 -0700 2009 5025898 154102 Harters 2 5026058 I'm also a fan of Zeytoun olive oil, pick mine up from an excellent Mediterranean/Middle Eastern foodhall in Kentish Town called Phoenicia. And actually I'm a fan of the olive oil from the electrical store in Clerkenwell but point taken that it's comedic to assert that this is the best place on the planet to buy olive oil. Reminds me of those absurd "top 50 global restaurant" lists that periodically get published, the ones that would have us believe that Hakkasan offers the best Chinese food in the world. Mmmm, I suspect that a few folks in HK, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu et al might disagree with that contention ever so slightly! It's unfortunate but there's an increasing amount of lazy and garbage journalism out there these days. Sun Sep 13 06:59:19 -0700 2009 5025898 28263 oonth 3 5027838 HI oonth - where is the electrical store in Clerkenwell? Would like to try the olive oil.... Mon Sep 14 04:03:57 -0700 2009 5026058 134814 DietStartsTomorrow 4 5027863 Turkish Embassy Electrical Supplies 76 Compton Street London, EC1 020 7251 4721 www.planetmem.com it says in this here OFM. It's just off St John Street, the bit north of the Clerkenwell Road. Mon Sep 14 04:47:13 -0700 2009 5027838 45951 Gav 5 5033759 thanks Gav - that's round the corner from me! Wed Sep 16 07:40:26 -0700 2009 5027863 134814 DietStartsTomorrow