Martha Stewart Says This Is the Only Olive Oil She Uses at Home

Martha Stewart is undeniably cool. An ex-con who can cater an elegant luncheon for 40 at the drop of a hat without breaking a sweat—presumably using her own chickens’ eggs and farm-raised produce? Pretty sweet! So we take her recommendations for the best products to use in the kitchen pretty seriously. So far, we’ve covered her favorite butter (fancy) and her favorite mayonnaise (surprisingly quotidian), and now we’ve just gotten word about her favorite, go-to olive oil.

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What is Martha Stewart’s favorite olive oil?

According to Food & Wine, Martha Stewart’s go-to olive oil is Flamingo Estate Heritage Virgin Olive Oil. F&W learned this while attending a “Fireside Chat” between Martha and Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen at the recent Kohler Food & Wine Weekend in Kohler, Wisconsin.

During the chat, Richard mentioned Flamingo Estate’s Heritage Virgin Olive Oil and Marth chimed in saying, “It is the only olive oil I use at home.”

What is Flamingo Estate?

Flamingo Estate is a Los Angeles-based lifestyle brand and actual historic home and garden that, according to the website, “is a pleasure-obsessed home of sun-worship, folk mythologies, and psychedelic remedies.” Groovy. The brand produces plenty of products with cult followings, like their Rosemary Clary Sage soap and Heirloom Tomato candles, along with a line of cooking oils (and Pamela Anderson’s pickles).

What makes this olive oil special?

It’s made with handpicked, fresh-pressed olives from 150-year-old olive trees grown in Ojai, California. When I say fresh-pressed, I mean it. The olives are pressed within hours of being picked, which results in a super green olive oil that, according to F&W, has “a grassy aroma, a peppery bite, and just enough round fruit to soften the finish.”

Where can you buy this olive oil and for how much?

You can buy Flamingo Estate Heritage Virgin Olive Oil on Flamingo Estate’s website for $48—file this under Martha’s pricier pleasures—as well as some other specialty online stores.

Is it really the best olive oil?

It doesn’t appear on our ranking of the best olive oil—but that’s because, well, first of all we haven’t gotten the opportunity to try it, and secondly because we focused on more affordable everyday olive oils. When we decide to expand our ranking to include some pricier bottles, we’ll be sure to include this in the taste test.

About the Author

Hi! I’m the editor-in-chief of Sporked. I will never turn down a fresh-shucked oyster but I’ll also leap at whatever new product Reese’s releases and I love a Tostitos Hint of Lime, even if there is no actual lime in the ingredients. Why you should trust me: I have been writing about food and beverages for well over a decade and am an avid at-home cook and snacker. I began my career writing about fine dining and recipes, moved into cocktails and spirits, and now I talk about groceries. If you can eat it or drink it, I’ve probably written about it. What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s dried okra. Appleton Farms prosciutto from Aldi. Some sort of Trader Joe’s cheese (I’m into the aged gouda at the moment). Frozen waffles (usually the Eggo Cinnamon Toast Minis). Spindrift water (loving the Cosmopolitan right now). Favorite ranking: Smoked salmon. Imagine me as Scrooge McDuck but instead of coins I’m diving into a vault of slippery smoked salmon slices. Pure joy. I also found some real steals in that taste test! Least favorite ranking: Canned oysters. I had such high hopes for this but it quickly became a chore. The kitchen smelled like an uncleaned aquarium.