i was pleased to finally hear someone say what I’ve always believed to be true: the people at chain stores making the decisions on what to buy — especially when it comes to olive oil — are profoundly clueless. it’s a testament to our national ignorance that the world works in such a way as for that status quo to perpetually exist without really outraging anyone. Alas. I’d like to have heard a bit more about what regions produce good oil — the stuff labeled as coming from Italy is predominantly garbage, so can we turn somewhere else? california? tunisia? greece? the writer says he expects his audience to be lay people when it comes to olive oil. I wanted to hear more for the more-seasoned listener. the performance loses a star because the reader pronounced broccoli rabe as “broccoli rah-bay.” he must have been a clueless buyer for a supermarket chain in a previous life.