Guide: How to Eat & Drink like a Cretan
Once you spend a bit of time in Crete and with the company of Cretans, you will realize one thing for sure: these people know how to eat! Food is an important part of Cretan culture and the center of…
Easter for Foodies at Fodele Beach
Easter is an exceptionally beautiful time to be in Crete, as the weather is perfect and nature is blooming. It is also the best time to try unique Cretan delicacies, some prepared exclusively for Easter festivities. Easter season presents some…
5 Cretan Dishes You Must Taste While in Crete
The Cretan cuisine is all about nature as the foundation of fantastic gastronomy. The strength of this world-famous culinary choice lies in the freshness and organic quality of the food on the island. Much has been researched and written to…
Olive Oil: Benefits and Importance in the Cretan Diet
Described as “liquid gold” by the epic poet Homer and “the great healer” by the father of medicine, Hippocrates, olive oil is the one irreplaceable nutritional element of the world-famous Cretan diet. Since antiquity, Crete’s chief product of consumption and…
Cretan Cheeses and Other Dairy Products
Crete is an abundant land where shepherds still care for their flocks the way their ancestors used to since ancient times. The animals graze freely in the mountains, deliver the sweetest milk, which the farmers use for daily consume, to…
Carob Harvest Time on Crete
Carob – often called the “lost treasure of Crete” – is making a strong comeback on the island. It is what foodies and nutritionists today call a “superfood.” On Crete, the carob tree finds a welcoming, abundant home, on arid soils free of fungus and pests.