Greek olive oil

The foundation of the Greek cuisine is olive oil. In antiquity, was also abundantly used in cosmetics: rubbed over her body and hair after a bath. Olive oil consumed raw, cold-pressed in large presses, and poured it on the spit roasted meat. Also eaten olives in its entirety, rather than raw marinated. Today olive oil is the foundation of all Greek dishes, is used for frying, added to salads (such as for us, in an unimaginably large quantities), a component of many sauces and dishes. A visitor may have difficulty getting used to it, but it is slightly greenish digestible fat and healthy. More worrisome to strangers is the temperature of food served, they are only a year, it is better to highlight the natural flavor of food.