About 350 people celebrated the Feast of the Olive

Vandellós. Costa Dorada. January 14, 2013. About 350 people took part in the Feast of the Olive IX, organized on Sunday January 13, the Board of Agricultural Cooperative Vandellòs, with the collaboration of the City of Vandellòs Hospitalet de l ' Child Cultural Center, Sports and Recreational Vandellòs (CCERV) and the Group of Bowling Vandellòs. Among these people, there was the mayor of Vandellòs Hospitalet de l'Infant, Alfonso Garcia, and several councilors of the council, the president of the Agricultural Cooperative Vandellòs, Ramon Arbós, the director of the regional Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Food and Environment of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Tarragona, Anton Ballvé, and the head of the Office of the County Down Golf, Miriam Escofet. All participants enjoyed a popular breakfast where, in addition to taste the new oil of the cooperative, ate toast, sausage, bacon, herring, roasted hazelnuts, tangerines, and drinking red wine and water. Before breakfast, five people competed in the traditional contest aioli. The winner was Manuel Castellnou neighbor Vandellòs. The flip open bowling that was scheduled for after lunch had to be suspended due to rain. Interested in buying oil in Agrobotiga, however, if it could be done, from 9 to 13 hours. This season Vandellòs Agricultural Cooperative has produced a total of 20,803 liters of oil, of which 7,744 Agrobotiga sold in liters. The rest will go to the producers themselves. This gastronomic, the Cooperative has announced another year of the last olive harvest. The presence of traditional varieties of olive Salivenca Regus and also the Arbequina oil obtained Vandellòs fruity extra virgin in shades of green, flawless, stable, a greater presence of polyphenols, which makes last longer in the cooking and does not become rancid as easily as oil Arbequina and is also the most delicious eaten raw.

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