Olive oil is one of the favorite ingredients for chefs and home cooks. The varieties are as vast as are the recipe uses. Chef and registered dietitian Ellie Krieger has a lot to say about olive oil and healthy eating.
The New York native was a fashion model and that helped her discover that food and healthy living were her passions. She earned her BA in clinical nutrition from Cornell University and got her masters in nutrition from Columbia University. She contributes to many publications and has a weekly column in The Washington Post. She is actively involved in the “Let’s Move” campaign.
Krieger is also the host of the Food Network's Healthy Appetite and PBS's Ellie’s Real Good Food and has written five books including So Easy: Luscious Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week.
Krieger spoke with TheCelebrityCafe.com about what the difference is between olive oil, light-tasting olive oil and extra virgin olive oil, how to properly store it, what The North American Olive Oil Association is, how olive oil can be used as a healthy substitute for butter and more, all while demonstrating a few recipes.
You can find out more about Ellie Krieger here and learn about the North American Olive Oil Association here.
Michelle Tompkins http://www.mediamichelle917.com Michelle Tompkins is an award-winning media, PR and crisis communications professional with more than ten years experience with coverage in virtually every traditional and new media outlet. She is currently a communications and media strategist and writer, as well as the author of College Prowler: Guidebook for Columbia University. She served as the Media Relations Manager for the Girl Scouts of the USA where she managed all media and talking points, created social media strategy, trained executives and donors and served as the organization’s primary spokesperson, participating in daily interviews with local, regional, and national media outlets. She managed the media for the Let Me Know internet safety and Cyberbullying prevention campaign with Microsoft, as well as Girl Scouts’ centennial Year of the Girl To Get Her There celebration in 2012, which yielded more than 800 million earned media impressions. In addition to her extensive media experience, Michelle worked as a talent agent in Los Angeles, California, as well contracting as a digital content developer and her writing has appeared in newspapers and online. She is passionate about television, theater, classic movies, all things food and in-home entertaining. While she has lived and worked in NYC for more than a decade, she is from suburban Sacramento and gets back there often to watch the San Francisco Giants on TV with her family.