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Olive: A Global History\nby Fabrizia Lanza\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 18\u201319 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Fabrizia Lanza\nTitle: Olive: A Global History\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Cultural studies: food and society\nPublisher: Reaktion Books\nPublication year: 2011\nISBN-13: 9781861898685\nISBN-10: 1861898681\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOlives are at once a mythical food - bringing to mind scenes from Ancient Rome and the Bible - and an everyday one, given the ubiquity of olive oil in contemporary diets. In this original, succinct and engaging history Fabrizia Lanza traces the olive's roots from antiquity, when olive oil was exalted for ritual purposes and used to anoint kings and athletes; to the sixteenth century, when Europeans brough.