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<pre>The problem We have in this hick Country (although it looks good!) I live in
is there is very little varietal olives for sale Kalamata black or green is
your whack so I take what I can get unless someone can suggest a good place
to buy olives in the whole of Scotland that they might supply Thanks.

Peter Bryson
44 Castlehill Crescent,
Law.
ML8 5LY
+44 01698 372552
Email Brysons@csi.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BRYSONS
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From: Sadoun <ASadoun@worldnet.att.net>
To: OliveOil@onelist.com <OliveOil@onelist.com>
Date: 20 February 1999 02:12
Subject: [OliveOil] Re: (no subject)


>From: "Sadoun" <ASadoun@worldnet.att.net>
>
>>From: "Peter Bryson" <Brysons@csi.com>
>>some of us eat it in pretty large quantities too. Do you?
>
>You bet Peter. I eat on average about 20 olives, home cured or not, as
long
>as it is on the table or within reach. You want to hear a funny story.
The
>other day I found five Kalamata olive seeds left on the kitchen counter. I
>asked my wife, who left the seeds on the counter. She said " I have no
>idea." So a couple of nights ago I woke up in the middle of the night and
>headed down to the kitchen for a drink of water. There, I found my three
>years old daughter holding the olive container in her hands and eating the
>olives. I was so impressed. Of course, I joined here for a 2:00 AM olive
>snack.
>
>So long
>
>Sadoun.
>
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<pre>>From: "Peter Bryson" <Brysons@csi.com>


>The problem We have in this hick Country (although it looks good!) I live
in
>is there is very little varietal olives for sale Kalamata black or green is


I am having the same problem here in Columbus, OH. I can't find a decent
source of olives at all. I can't believe it. I have already consumed the
home cured "Baladi" olives that I shipped from Jordan last year. I got
about 40 kgs of olives and about 30 gallons of our own pressed olive oil. I
am out of the olives and almost out of the oil to the last gallon after
sharing it with family and friends. I imported some goods from Jordan last
year to the US, so I was able to get the olives and oil shipped along in one
of the containers. I am not expecting any shipments from Jordan right
now, so I am stranded. I might have to go to Detroit or Chicago or have
somebody from there send me some olives. I will keep you posted.

Being used to my own olive and olive oil, it will be difficult to switch to
anything else that will compare. I guess all of us feel the same about our
own grown olives and olive oil.

The Baladi variety of olives is one of the best available for oil. Our
family trees have been originally grafted on a wild variety back in 1920's.
My grandfather was a very renowned farmer of apples, almonds, olives, wheat,
bananas and watermelons. He is a legend in the North part of Jordan.
Apples and almonds were first planted. However, the trees were venerable to
disease. Later he gradually switched to Olives in the early 1925 and fully
in the 1940's. He developed his own nursery and improved the olives by
grafting with the strong and oily varieties. His granite wheels olive mill
was the only one available in Jordan back in the fifties and sixties. My
Grandfather died of a heart attack in 1967 at the age of 75. He was still
fully active in olives and olive oil and his health was as a good as it
could be. I never got the chance to see him. But I could see his fruits
every time I walk pass an olive tree that he left for us. He could never
have left a better gift.

Jamal Sadoun
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