A unique olive oil for your basket

Not local, but essential...

Like coffee, olive oil isn't grown locally in Montreal. Yet it's an essential product.

We tasted quite a few different products before deciding to work with our dynamic and friendly neighbors in Ahunstic: Favuzzi. They're olive oils and vinegar specialitists, and they really know what they are talking about.

If you take away only one thing from this post it should be this: there's a huge difference in quality between olive oils for cooking and olive oils for finishing dishes or preparing sauces.

You'll find a delicious, high-quality extra virgin olive oil on the marketplace. The Lufa Farms team loves it.

It is a cold extracted oil produced in the most advanced mill of Extremadura, south-east Spain. Environmentally, it produces no waste because the mark is transferred to a treatment plant, the olive pits are used as biomass to fuel the furnace, sewage or vegetation is treated and reused to wash the olives and mud used as a fertilizer for the farm.

Produced exclusively with Manzanilla olives, this oil has an acidity level of less than 0.2%. Sweet aromas marked with banana, apple and freshly cut grass, Favuzzi oil is perfect for cooking, but is also the perfect partner for finishing delicate dishes such as summer salads or fish. (Translated from French, Blog Chez Latina)

Favuzzi's Philosophy 
Sharing our desire to eat well.

How many employees are there in Ahunstic?
Fifteen employees (all really passionate!)

Who is Favuzzi?
Favuzzi is the name of the company's founder, Michel Favuzzi, who founded the company in 2000 while he was still a student. Of Italian origin, he wanted to reconnect with the land of his ancestors and to do so he contacted an uncle who was working in an olive oil cooperative in Italy. He imported his first bottles of olive oil and started sharing his passion with his teachers and classmates.

After storing boxes in his parents' garage for a while and after going around town, knocking on each door with his partner Simon, they established a name for themselves in Montreal's (and Quebec's!) olive oil scene.

Not just any oil
For the Favuzzi team, products must always have an added value: ethical, natural or organic ingredients of an artisanal quality. They work with suppliers who love the product as much as they do.

Do you know your olive oil?
To have a true extra-virgin olive oil, acidity must be lower than 0.8%. This is when it contains the most polyphenols, an healthy antioxidant.

What influences the quality of the final product is the moment of harvest. Young green olives make little oil but are very rich in antioxidants and produce a higher quality oil that tastes a little spicy and bitter. Ripe black olives will give you more oil, but of a lower quality.

As Fabien Pichard of Favuzzi team explained to me, olive oil is a bit like wine: it's also a question of taste! Check out their guide for more details on the optimal food & aroma combinations. Remember, cooking with high-quality oils is a bit of a waste!

Quality oil, an investment?
Think about it, a quality oil with which you will prepare your dishes and that will last two or three months is less expensive than a good bottle of wine that will be drunk in less than an hour.

Top Tip
The three enemies of oil are air, heat and light. Keep your bottle in a dark place or protected from the sunlight. Also try to quickly replace the cap (flavors change over time) and keep it at room temperature.
 
Thanks to Fabien Pichard & Michel Favuzzi for their amazing collaboration, we are happy to share your passion with our lufavores!

Favuzzi
65, Rue du Port-Royal West
Montreal (Qc) H3L 2A7
514.277.1234
http://www.favuzzi.com
info@favuzzi.com