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If you ever had the sneaking suspicion that the words 'extra virgin' on olive oil was a load of old cobblers, pat yourself on the back. Your consumer's BS meter is working fine. I certainly feel more educated in consumer BS of all kinds after reading Tom Mueller's Extra Virginity, about the...

Almost exactly three hundred years ago Londoners could buy the first English-language book on how to make a salad. Called Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (acetaria being an old word for salad greens), it instructed that only the freshest leaves straight from the garden should be used. They...