Extra Virginity by Tom Mueller

Extra Virginity by Tom Mueller

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life’s necessities—not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious rituals. But this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt. A superbly crafted combination of cultural history and food manifesto, Extra Virginity takes us on a journey through the world of olive oil, opening our eyes to olive oil’s rich past as well as to the fierce contemporary struggle between oil fraudsters of the globalized food industry and artisan producers whose oil truly deserves the name "extra virgin."

"Tom Mueller is, in turn, chemist, explorer, scholar and bard, infusing the narrative with a sense of wonder" -- Times Literary Supplement
"In covering an industry that has its heroes and villains, author Tom Mueller does a splendid job of sorting out the players and demystifying the product." -- Russ Parsons - Los Angeles Times
"Extra Virginity may make you reconsider the extra you’re paying for 'extra.'" -- Cynthia Crossen - Wall Street Journal
"Passionately written yet clear-headed…Mueller builds a convincing case for olive oil as one of the most miraculous and versatile substances in all of nature." -- Jerry Shriver - USA Today
"Mueller does for his subject what Susan Orlean did for orchids." -- Columbus Dispatch
"[Extra Virginity] does for olive oil what Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation did for hamburgers. Mueller traces the history of this valuable product from antiquity to the present, but the really disturbing part is his exposé of the inferior quality control and outright fraud among today’s oil producers." -- Andy Lewis - Hollywood Reporter

Tom Mueller’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, and Atlantic. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling Extra Virginity about food fraud, and Crisis of Conscience on whistleblowers and their enemies.

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ISBN 13	9780393343618
ISBN 10	0393343618
Title	Extra Virginity
Author	Tom Mueller
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2013-04-12
Number of pages	288
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