Our founders, Akram and Yumna, met in an olive grove (no, really) in the hills outside Bethlehem, Palestine.
Akram, a picky eater, and Yumna, a passionate home cook, don’t always agree on everything in the kitchen. But there’s one thing they’ve never compromised on: great olive oil. In Palestine, it was everywhere. But after moving to America, they struggled to find an olive oil that captured the flavor and quality they remembered from home. They set out to change that. That’s how Basita was born.