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Jamesport olive oil shop to open on Friday

by Vera Chinese on July 15th, 2014
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Linda Durgan and her son Keith at their new store, The Pitted Olive in Jamesport. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)

The Pitted Olive, a new olive oil and vinegar tasting room and store in Jamesport will open its doors on Friday, July 18 at 10 a.m.

“I’m looking forward to great success. The word is out and I’m hoping that everything works well,” said owner and Jamesport transplant Linda Durgan. “I’m sure it will be a great store for the community.”

Durgan will offer olive oil tastings, olive-themed gifts, drinkable vinegars and even an olive oil refill program when the Main Road storefront opens this week. The store will also sell olive oil-based products from the Italian cosmetic company Olivella.

Durgan plans to offer an olive oil refill program through Ariston, a Connecticut-based distributor of Greek olive oil. She also wants to offer decanters, olive-themed linens and Himalayan salt blocks, as well as local breads and produce for tastings.

Vines & Branches in Greenport is currently the only other olive oil and vinegar shop on the North Fork.

The Pitted Olive is located at 1560 Main Road in Jamesport, next to Grana wood-fired pizza.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

Jamesport Linda Durgan The Pitted Olive

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