Olive Oil and Honey Top Exhibitors List at Global Village

First Time in Dubai: Palestinian Pavilion is Set to Operate an Olive Presser

Dubai, 10 November, 2012:  Olive oil and honey top the lists of exhibitors at Global Village this season as the region’s leading Cultural, Shopping and Entertainment family outdoor destination attracts the widest range of homegrown dried fruits, nuts and crops as well.

And this season, in a Dubai first, the Palestinian pavilion will be showcasing an oil presser, so visitors can have a full demonstration of the process of olive pressing and can purchase the fresh olive oil on spot.

From the homeland of olives, Jerusalem, the first thing visitors might note at the Palestinian pavilion, is a photograph of Um Hamza who took over managing the business of his mother’s patented recipes of Palestinian appetizers, and attends to the customers himself, assuring customers of the quality of homemade sandwich spreads.

Shelves are filled with olive oil recipes, from dairies to the famous goat cheese of Nablus, the colorful stand remains packed with visitors and vendors at the pavilion keep offering visitors a taste of all sorts of olive oil based recipes.

Olive oil from Syria and Lebanon is also highly featured at Global Village featuring fresh olives to and olive oil soaked jars of Syrian delicacies, while its Lebanese neighbour also offers the tastiest kinds of olive oil with special recipes on show at the Lebanese pavilion with extras of herbs, spices and nuts.

The gourmet taste of Tunisian olive oil is different, thanks to the weather and the country’s nature. Last year, this sole Tunisian brand on display has won the prize in one of the competitions in Paris for “Best Organic Olive Oil of the Year”.   

But the olive oil story is not limited to the Arab world. The Spanish pavilion is dominated by Analucian olive with the brand Sukaina, which displays the basic extra virgin, organic as well a wide variety of flavored olive oils featuring strongly. Some others contain balsamic vinegar, red chili or the 4 kinds of pepper, meanwhile, other lines are flavored with garlic and parsley or cinnamon - which targets sweet pastry.

Famous, homegrown Spanish brands like “Imperio Verde” focusing on the organic lines and the very extra cold pressed olives, are fed on nature’s rainwater and the use of pesticides is forbidden on the privately owned farmlands.

At Greek pavilion visitors can sample “Kalliston” - a rare gourmet of homegrown olives at Kranidi which is the capital of Ermionida – a peninsula on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese region that features olive trees that are more than 2000 years old in some cases. Many olive stuffed Kalliston products are expected to arrive to Global Village soon. From “piemento” stuffed olives, to feta cheese as well as sundried tomatoes stuffed olives and more.

From Yemen visitors can sample their world renowned honey that is enhanced by the strong spice aroma as visitors enter their Pavilion. Yemini merchants pride themselves for being the best beekeepers in the world and to them Sidr Honey resembles the elixir of long healthy life. While black honey is the best cure for osteoporosis, anemia and diabetes as it contains a low percentage of glucose. Flower honey, as Yemeni honey makers recommend, is good for children as it is light on the stomach.

One of Global Village’s newest participants – Bulgaria, is also showcasing 5 popular types of honey as part of the East European Pavilion. They honey is complemented by rose oil products with Bulgaria one of the world’s largest producers.

This year visitors can enjoy Global Village’s longest ever season of 161 days and enjoy more than 26 restaurants and 160 kiosks in addition to hosting 37 pavilions representing more than 65 countries.

Global Village has also launched a bimonthly raffle draw on a sport Camaro model 2013, and a visitor can get a raffle coupon after buying their entry ticket at the venue on the Emirates Road that also features 16,500 parking places.

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