The Greek word for olives is elies, ελιές, pronounced el-YES.
The Greek olives available around the world are the culmination of thousands of years of cultivation, and several types of curing. This gallery continues to grow as I have the opportunity to take photos of additional varieties.
The color of the olives denotes the time of the harvesting season during which they were picked. Harvesting runs from October to January. The greenest olives are harvested in October, the red or pink in November, the black in December, and the wrinkled black (not to be confused with olives that have shriveled due to curing in salt) in January.
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- Small Cretan Green OlivesGreek Food Photos - Small Cretan Green Olives
- Halkithiki Green OlivesHalkithiki Green Greek Olives
- Stuffed Green OlivesStuffed Green Greek Olives
- Kalamata Red OlivesKalamata Red Olives
- Plum OlivesGreek plum olives
- Kalamata Black OlivesKalamata black olives
- Wrinkled Black OlivesWrinkled Greek Olives - Throubes or Throumbes
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