David began his journey with Olive Oil in 1985 as a Chef Commis at The Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC, USA. After five years in hotel Food and Beverage and another six in Organic and Specialty Food retail, ending at Whole Foods Markets as Director of Grocery, he entered food manufacturing, spending ten years as an Executive for the leading organic cereal company in Vancouver, BC, Canada.<\/p>\n
In early 2006 and for the next nine years, he was President and Partner of Lucini Italia\u00ae, based in Miami, Florida, which he grew to be the premier quality Italian Olive Oil in America.\u00a0David continued his passion for EVOO by founding EVOOGuy.com(R), a consultancy. Focused 100% on best\u2013in\u2013class Extra Virgin Olive Oils. At the same time, launching his\u00a0own EVOO brand, established a Tasting Tour using a custom-designed Olive Oil truck,\u00a0lecturing, and continuing to share his knowledge via his Olive Oil 101 platform. He found\u00a0a partnership with the Mediterranean Diet Round (MDR) Table in 2020, a think tank to\u00a0support awareness about curated EVOOs. This included a tasting class with Yale\u00a0University and 100 of their students as well as numerous tasting events in New York and Notre Dame University.<\/p>\n
Olive Oil clients David has helped build their brand and business in the USA include: Deoleo (Carapelli\/Italian), Casas De Hualdo (Spanish), Oleama (Turkish), Oz Organics (Turkish), Mis Raices (Spanish), Valderamma (Spanish) and many more.<\/p>\n
David\u2019s first book, Extra Virgin Olive Oil\u2014The Truth In Your Kitchen (Morgan James Publishing 2022), is available in paperback and endorsed by notable Olive Oil author, Tom Mueller, is also available as an e-book and audiobook on all the usual platforms. He has been featured on Martha Stewart, Kelly Clarkson Show, MSNBC, PBS, and many other media outlets, teaching how to taste and evaluate EVOO properly.<\/p>\n
His participation is vast in the Olive Oil field, included many years of study at the oldest\u00a0Olive Oil school in the world; O.N.A.O. O (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Olio di\u00a0Oliva) based in Imperia, Italy, an International Olive Council Accredited school. His\u00a0designation as a trained Panel Taster and ONAOO Level 1 Technical Taster in 2012, as well as rising to a Professional Taster in Good Standing, 2018 \u2013 Present.<\/p>\n
Today, David continues to use his vast knowledge in the Olive Oil world as a C-level executive for Millpress Imports \/ Seasons brand, based in Bethlehem, PA, and their Estate in Jaen, Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9421,"template":"","format":"standard","nazione":[84],"class_list":["post-9422","registro","type-registro","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","nazione-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/registro\/9422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/registro"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/registro"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/registro\/9422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9428,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/registro\/9422\/revisions\/9428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"nazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nazione?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}