Sarah Merrigan, Lola Sagra and a couple of well-known Irish food critics were well-oiled. Sagra’s Nobleza del Sur has been cultivating olive oil in the Spanish region of Andalucia since 1640 – the era of the Flight of the Earls, some of whom settled in Iberia. Sagra is an outlier in what is mainly a man’s world of olives. Merrigan, of the eponymous Sarah & Olive business, was keen for her to educate culinary writers in Ireland where olive oil is often an afterthought, even though it is a global market valued at $14.6 billion (€13.35 billion) in 2022. “We…

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