I always use canola oil when I'm doing high-heat cooking. Anytime the pan is hotter than medium, it's probably going to make the olive oil smoke too much.
As to good brands, I get my olive oil from the local organic grocery store... but other than that, can't tell you much. I don't pay attention to the taste of olive oil.
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She answers hard acrostics, has a pretty taste for paradox
She quotes in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics she can floor peculiarities parabolous -C'hi
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