I’ve only been an olive fan for a few years. Before then I only knew olives as either dead black canned things that ended up on pizzas or the green martini olives. Blech! All this changed when I started reading about raw olives and ordered some from rawfood.com. I bought my then housemate a number of jars of olives for Christmas. Some Kalamatas, some black olives and some Peruvian olives.
The Kalamatas and black olives were gone the same day! Wow were they good! Definitely better than what we can get here at the local supermarket deli. Very high quality and tasty. Neither of us liked the Peruvian olives at all…we found them to be very bitter and they stayed in our refrigerator for a long time as we offered them to guests, none of whom liked them. But the Kalamatas definitely were impressive.
Olives are one of the best foods you can eat on the living foods diet. They are packed with all the good kinds of fat and are very satisfying. I am constantly snacking on them and include them with most every salad. I just now got the inspiration to make some tapenade..will write about how it goes! If you are interested in living foods I recommend eating a lot of olives. They are strong and sometimes an acquired taste. If you can acquire a taste for them I highly recommend doing so!