Olive and olive oil production is particularly important for the economy of the region.

It is boiled, then served with olive oil and lemon like a salad, usually alongside fried fish.

This moth has been introduced to the eastern United States and is common near many towns ; it is about 12 cm across, with angulated wings, and in colour olive brown, with white markings.

3: 17 For though the fig tree doesn ’ t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines ; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food ; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: 3: 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.

However, unlike the French, it is made with oil or bacon fat and more lately olive oil, and not butter, and it is used as a thickening agent, especially in gumbo and étouffée.

The climate is generally dry and mild, but with the exception of Naxos the soil is not very fertile: agricultural produce includes wine, fruit, wheat, olive oil, and tobacco.

In northern Europe, wheat, rye, and fats of animal origin predominate, while in southern Europe olive oil is ubiquitous and rice is more prevalent.

Throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean there is a common thread marking the use of lamb, olive oil, lemons, peppers, and rice.

Harmaline is thought to act primarily on neurons in the inferior olive ( IO ).

Additionally, when harmaline is administered to lesioned IOs, little to no tremors are observed, reinforcing harmalines ’ specificity for inferior olive connections.

In Italy, carpaccio is a dish of very thinly sliced raw beef, drizzled with a vinaigrette made with olive oil.

The only thing all these variations have in common is the original gazpacho, in other words, the basic paste made of garlic, which works as an emulsifier bread, the olive oil, the vinegar and salt.

Wine and olive oil have always been a central part of it and the spread of grapes and olive trees in the Mediterranean and further afield is correlated with Greek colonization.

The most characteristic and ancient element of Greek cuisine is olive oil, which is frequently used in most dishes.

It is produced from the olive trees prominent throughout the region, and adds to the distinctive taste of Greek food.

* Greek salad: the so-called Greek salad is known in Greece as village / country salad ( horiatiki ) and is essentially a tomato salad with cucumber, red onion, feta cheese, and kalamata olives, dressed with olive oil.

It is made of beans, tomatoes, carrot, celery and a generous amount of olive oil usually served with a variety of salty side dishes.

* Psarosoupa ' fish soup ' can be made with a variety of fish, and several kinds of vegetables ( carrots, parsley, celery, potatoes, onion ), several varieties include the classic kakavia which is drizzled with olive oil.

The main colour is typically medium brown, but it can be also grey, olive brown or black.

The pattern consists of a ground colour that varies from medium brown and olive to lighter shades of orange, pink and red, overlaid with darker striped or brindled markings.

* Socca is a speciality of Nice – it is a round flat cake made of chickpea flour and olive oil, like the Italian farinata.

It is an olive shade of green during the dry months and a bluish-brown in the monsoon months attributed to much algae and aquatic plant life. The impounded water of the Koyna Dam though has submerged a significant amount of Rain forest of the Western Ghats, it has helped a lot to the surrounding forest by supplying water all round the year.

Upon maturation, round gobies become mottled with gray, black, brown, and olive green markings.

According to Marie Lupo Tusa, daughter of the Central Grocery's founder, it was born when Sicilian farmers selling their produce at the nearby Farmers ' Market would come into her father's grocery for lunch and order some salami, ham, cheese, olive salad, and either long braided Italian bread or a round muffuletta loaf.

A more recent development is the external inductor types which have a wider range of applications and which are available in round, rectangular and " olive " shaped form factors.

This was a branch of olive or laurel, bound with purple or white wool, round which were hung various fruits of the season, pastries, and small jars of honey, oil and wine.

: Sassi della Calvana-The Stones of Calvana traditional cookies are shaped round. They are made with chestnut flour and pine nuts or raisins and Vin Santo, with nuts and olive oil, or olive oil and candied lemon.

The most popular Habib's products at Habib's are the sfiha ( a small, round flatbread topped with minced beef or cheese ) and the kibbeh ( a croquette of beef shaped like a rugby ball with either an olive or some catupiry cheese inside ).

For example, his suggestion for treatment of ague: " Gather olive leaf before sunrise, write on it with common ink ( ka roi a ), and hang it round the neck.

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

Over the years, the olive has been the symbol of peace, wisdom, glory, fertility, power and purity.

Many olive trees in the groves around the Mediterranean are said to be hundreds of years old, while an age of 2, 000 years is claimed for a number of individual trees ; in some cases, this has been scientifically verified.

The age of an olive tree in Crete, claimed to be over 2, 000 years old, has been confirmed on the basis of tree ring analysis.

An olive tree on the island of Brijuni ( Brioni ), Istria in Croatia, has been calculated to be about 1, 600 years old.

Ancient trees include two giant olive trees in Arraba and five trees in Deir Hanna, both in the Galilee region, which have been determined to be over 3, 000 years old, although the credibility of the study that produced these dates has been questioned.

The olive tree, Olea europaea, has been cultivated for olive oil, fine wood, olive leaf, and the olive fruit.

This small olive, though difficult to cultivate, has a high yield of olive oil of exceptional quality.

It has a strong but sweet flavour, and is widely used in Spain as a table olive.

This frog has smooth slippery skin which is multicolored on its back with blotches of olive gray or brown.

Around the year 390 a wealthy Roman woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original church called " Eleona Basilica " ( elaion in Greek means " olive garden ", from elaia " olive tree ," and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning " mercy ").

From the eagle's perspective, it holds a bundle of 13 arrows in its left talon, ( referring to the 13 original states ), and an olive branch in its right talon, together symbolizing that the United States of America has " a strong desire for peace, but will always be ready for war.

The eagle has its head turned towards the olive branch, said to symbolize a preference for peace.