Freelance writer Celestina Blok’s current favorite oil and vinegar pairing is Persian lime olive oil with coconut white balsamic vinegar. Love her or loathe her, bubbly celebrity chef Rachael Ray gets the credit for persuading many home cooks to replace their boring vegetable oils with fancy bottles of the more fashionable and flavorful extra virgin olive oil. After the cookbook author and talk-show host gained popularity for rattling off recipe after recipe calling for enough “EVOO” to drizzle around “two turns of the pan,” supermarkets began dedicating more shelf space to countless varieties slapped with labels blaring buzzwords like...
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