Italians, who consume more high-value, extra virgin olive oil per capita than anyone else, run the risk of running out of the stuff before the new crop comes in this fall. Many blame climate change, suggesting that the region’s weather woes will continue for decades. In addition to weather challenges, its biggest olive-growing region is struggling to contain a bacterium that is killing olive trees. That’s a price hit for Americans, but nothing like the impact in Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, where per capita consumption of the golden liquid is some 10 times greater.In some ways, Italy is shouldering the biggest burden. Wholesale prices surged to a record in April, which in turn has boosted consumer costs. In the United States, it’s the opposite problem: too much rain and flooding in California this spring.The result: rising prices. In Europe, a drought, the worst in decades, has devastated the olive crop in Spain, the world’s largest producer of olive oil. Olive oil.Weather problems have caused concern on both sides of the Atlantic. I’d rather get on and maybe write another book.Beware the oil shortage. It’s not something that I spend hours pondering.
What happened to was just like “Woah!” I just thought I’d continue working in television and getting on with my life and then wham, this juggernaut hit me in terms of the success of the book.
But that’s not a conversation that I’m comfortable being in because that wasn’t my intention in my writing it. We’ll have to see what happens with The Mister. Other people put it wherever they see fit, and people can only view stuff through the prism of their own experiences. I’m there to entertain people and make them escape daily life, that’s all I want to do. It’s not a conversation that I particularly want to be a part of. Romance as a genre comes with a lot of stereotypes and fraught things – whether that be that it’s not well-written, issues of consent on the page, and this question of how we belittle culture made primarily for women – where do you feel your work fits into that conversation and those issues?
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