"olives" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a small, oval-shaped fruit that grows on olive trees and is commonly used in cooking and as a snack. Example: "I love snacking on olives while watching a movie."
Plates held olives, boquerones – tiddler fish marinated in vinegar – and slices of acorn-fattened wine-red ham marbled with buttery fat.
Today, the gracious palazzo and the nearby wild coastline of the Punta Licosa are all that remain of the Belmonte estates which once covered swathes of southern Italy and Spain and were famous for their olives and wine which made the family rich and powerful.
Now he is experimenting by marinating raw fish in fruity olive oil and herbs – monkfish with olives and mint, seabream with basil and lemon, mackerel with laurel leaves and onion.
In northern Evia, a three-hour drive from Athens (the island is linked to the mainland by a bridge), the pretty Eleonas Hotel is set in a working olive grove, between sea and pine-clad hills - you can buy oil and olives from your hosts Stephanos and Maria to take home.
The oldest market, the Naschmarkt, spans a mile-long stretch in the heart of downtown, where Turkish merchants hawk falafel, sweet potatoes and blindingly bright chilli peppers, Italians sell olives the size of golf balls, and Austrians peddle their now famous strom – young wine that packs a serious punch.
It's versatile – approach it in the same way that you might invent a pasta sauce for dinner, roasting whatever veg is in the fridge, or using up the last of that jar of olives.
3 Mix the cooled quinoa, porridge oats, mixed nuts, mixed seeds, ground almonds, black olives, rosemary leaves, smoked paprika and salt in a large mixing bowl.
We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.
Along the back wall was a bar with an impressive array of drinks and in the middle of the room was an enormous table groaning under the weight of incredible-looking food including hand-carved hams, olives the size of plums and pasta dish upon pasta dish.
We had olives, a vineyard".
When Jordan ruled over Jerusalem's holy places for 19 years after the birth of Israel in 1948, synagogues in the Old City were destroyed and a road was ploughed through Jewish tombs on the nearby Mount of Olives.
