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Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore)

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How to Taste Olive Oil

To taste oil, you have to keep the oil in your mouth and take in air through the teeth. That sound has a name. I'm going to let Tom say it because my Italian is terrible. It's slurping essentially. You slurp. Drawing in air in the corners of your mouth which aerosolizes the oil and makes the aromas go back into your nasal passages. Then you can really get a sense of all the different aromatics and flavors in the oil. And so what it means? It has like a pepper, not the like sear the back of your throat but like a peppery, vegetable.

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