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Olive Oil: Learn How to Taste for Food Pairings and Quality

Popular mainly because of its health benefits, extra virgin olive oil has become an essential ingredient all around the world. Most know the ingredients as cooking oil, but its benefits are powerful in beauty and medical purposes too.

Extra virgin olive oil connoisseur Andrea Baldisserri will be leading an olive oil masterclass to transfer his knowledge of the oil and the basic tasting techniques to understand how to identify quality oils. The 1.5-hour session will cover:

  1. Olive history
  2. Where the cultivation and biology in the field meet
  3. Extraction methods / regional oils
  4. Quality
  5. Merits and defects
  6. Health benefits
  7. Combination of oil and food
  8. Tasting techniques

 

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Andrea Baldisserri found his passion for extra virgin olive oil from his family as a small, humble oil producer in Lucca, Tuscany Italy. He became a taster after a 1-year course on the oil and is now certified in the National Register of Virgin and Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Experts. Andrea leads tastings at international culinary schools, as well as in Asia.

 

📅 26 September 2019

🕕 6 – 7:30 pm

📍the Hive Sheung Wan

💰$80

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