Virgin Territory by Nancy Harmon Jenkins (HMH, 2014)

Without shying away from the controversies swirling around evoo and its fraudulent labelling, Virgin Territory succeeds in making its readers knowledgeable consumers of the ancient oil. Armed with the skinny on the much misunderstood and misrepresented elixir that ‘perfumes every food over which it is ladled’ readers learn where to find the good stuff and why they must seek it out. With more than 100 Mediterranean recipes to put flesh on oil.