MILAN — One-third of Italians have reduced their consumption of extra virgin olive oil, a mainstay of the Mediterranean diet, due to skyrocketing prices, according to a survey released Friday. But ...

Last year's harvest fell to a 25-year low in Italy. Rome -- Italy's production of olive oil fell to a 25-year low of 185,000 tons last year -- a more than 57 percent drop in quantity from the ...

Chicago (CBS) -- Be careful if you plan on cooking up a tasty pasta dish this week, because there's an olive oil shortage halfway around the world. Quartino Restaurant cooks up close to 10,000 meals a ...

Putting olive oil in coffee is hardly a tradition in Italy, but that didn’t stop Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz from launching a series of beverages that do just that in Milan, the city that ...

You go to the supermarket and olive oil is on your shopping list — but there are so many to choose from. What do all those terms on the label mean? Extra virgin? Cold-pressed? Last fall, I was invited ...

Curtis Cord, publisher of Olive Oil Times, tells NPR's Scott Simon about the olive oil crisis in Italy resulting from a downturn in the production cycle, freak weather conditions and bacteria. There's ...

Italy could soon be forced to import olive oil to stem a dramatic decline in production, a climate scientist has warned, as extreme weather events wreak havoc with harvests and threaten a shortage of ...

MILAN – Putting olive oil in coffee is hardly a tradition in Italy, but that didn't stop Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz from launching a series of beverages that do just that in Milan, the city ...