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Local chef Carlos Pineda demonstrated cooking recipes at last weekend’s San Benito Olive Festival. Hundreds of people attended the fourth annual event at the San...

A couple thousand connoisseurs in search of a delicate chardonnay and others out for an adventurous Saturday afternoon in the country were not disappointed at the third annual San Benito Olive Festival.  

In 1999, Barbara Rever and Jerry Ginsburg decided to pick olives from the trees on their property and their neighbors as well (they had permission of course). Out of that came a bounty of 800 bottles of olive oil, and life hasn’t been the same since for the married couple of 40 years.