Azeite - Olive oil

Olive oil is an important cooking oil in countries surrounding the Mediterranean, and it forms one of the three staple food plants of Mediterranean cuisine, the other two being wheat (as in pasta, bread, and couscous) and the grape, used as a dessert fruit and for wine
In Portugal, the reference to the olive tree is very old. The Visigothic Code, in the laws for the protection of agriculture, prescribed a fine of five wages for those who plucked someone else's olive tree, paying only three wages for another tree.
In Eneida, Virgílio mentions olive oil and olive trees: "And with an olive branch man is totally purified".
Romulus and Remus, considered descendants of the gods and founders of the city of Rome, would have seen the light of day for the first time under the branches of the olive tree.