Cal Orey is an accomplished author and journalist who holds a master's degree in English (Creative Writing) from San Francisco State University. Over the past 15 years, she has written hundreds of health-related articles for national magazines and websites, specializing in topics as diverse as health, nutrition, and sexual health. Her articles have appeared in The Writer, Woman's World, Woman's Day, Men's Fitness, Let's Live, as well as Complete Woman, for which she is a contributing editor. Ms. Orey is also the author of the best-selling book The Healing Powers of Vinegar, and Doctors' Order: What 101 Doctors Do to Stay Healthy. Get her new book:
The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes.
Sonoma Magazine, Spring Issue 2009
Here, a savvy editor's review excerpts on the book (penned by veteran health author-journalist Cal Orey, M.A., who writes for a mainstream audience about topics from nutrition to beauty), which has been purchased by One Spirit Book Club, Newsmax, translated in several languages around the globe, and recently released in mass market edition...
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The Healing Powers of Olive Oil, Cal Orey
If you're Italian, you'll look at the title of this book and go, "Duh!" The result is...olive oil information with more facts than you'll ever remember, some useful recipes... Orey has done her research well and she covers all the increasingly familiar bases.. Orey pays appropriate reference to local olive oil producers like the Olive Press and B.R. Cohn... She includes "30 Amazing Olive Oil Remedies," and even offers recipes for pet food: "Want to give your dog (or cat) a special edible treat but don't want chemicals? No problem. In fact, did you know that there are natural products on the market that actually contain olive oil?"
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An excerpt from
The Healing Powers of Olive Oil: Nature's Liquid Gold
In the fifties, I grew up in San Jose, California, a place once known for its plentiful orchards. Today, as a nature-loving Northern Californian who currently lives amid tall pine trees at Lake Tahoe, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that within three hours of my mountain-style home--with rolling hills much like in Italy, Spain, and Greece--olive groves are growing and people are producing olive oil, known as liquid gold, in a Mediterranean-type weather in the Golden State...
The closest I've come to Italy, the second largest producer of olive oil, is by watching the film Under the Tuscan Sun, which about a divorces writing professor and book reviewer--played by Diane Lane--and based loosely on a novel created by Frances Mayes, who taught classes at my alumni college, San Francisco State University. With envy, I viewed her protagonist, Frances, learning to live and laugh again thousands of miles away from the San Francisco Bay Area.
In the real world, I sit here in my study with snow-covered ground outdoors in the California Sierras and fantasize about how wonderful if would be to live in Italy amid olive trees. But, whisking off in a plane to Europe isn't going to happen for me today or tomorrow. Still, I will take you along with me to visit real people and real places where you will get a real flavor of the Mediterranean basin and the healing powers of olive oil.
My Fave Olive Oil Producers
(Praises The Healing
Powers of Olive Oil)
15000 Sonoma Hwy.
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
707-933-9675
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Nick Sciabica & Sons
2150 Yosomite Ave.
Modesto, CA 95354
800-551-9612
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The Olive Press
24724 Arnold Drive
Hwy. 121
Sonoma, CA 95476
707-965-4839
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Round Pond
877 Rutherford Crossroad
Rutherford, CA 94753
888-302-2575
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Spectrum Naturals, Inc.
133 Copeland Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
800-995-2705
