Olives at the farm of Ridgley Evans. Healdsburg, California - Ira Block Photography

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Waiters in the kitchen before an Olive Oil Association dinner. Chef Ettore Silvestri and his staff use different oils on various dishes. Tuscany, Italy.

Kup. Stamata Nikolaon Demetraku with her donkey and olive gathering equipment. Alephori, Lakonias, Greece.

A chef in the kitchen before the Olive Oil Association dinner pouring oil. Chef Ettore Silvestri and his staff use different oils on various dishes. Tuscany, Italy.

At the frantoio in San Quirico d"Orcia, Saleiti Dino (left), and Volti Giorgio prepare olives on grass mats for pressing. Tuscany, Italy.

People gathering olives in an orchard, Platana village. Sparta, Greece.

Olives at the farm of Ridgley Evans. Healdsburg, California

At the vegetable market in the Kolonaki area of Athens, Konstantinos Kokkalis sells olves from around Greece.

In uniform spendor legions of young olive trees swarm the hills of Andalusia in Spain, world leader in olive production. Thriving on heat and sun, gray-green groves have long inspired artistic souls. Wrote Renoir "... the sky that plays across them is enough to drive you mad."

A baby crying during his baptism at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where anointing with olive oil and baptism in water signify salvation. "Oil enables the baby to slip away from the grasp of evil," says Father John Tavlarides. As for his own grasp? "I haven't lost one yet."

Olives at the farm of Ridgley Evans. Healdsburg, California

Olives at the farm of Ridgley Evans. Healdsburg, California

Olives at the farm of Ridgley Evans. Healdsburg, California

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