Cretan Food & Gastronomy: Cretan cooking lessons

Learn how to prepare traditional Cretan food, cook, taste, and enjoy local Cretan cuisine. A hands-on experience, based on authentic Cretan and mainland Greece's recipes we will learn how to prepare Cretan dishes, using fresh ingredients from our local garden. A unique journey to experience Cretan flavors and tradition. Experience the Cretan gastronomy - cook with us!

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The Cretan Diet: Uncovering Its Heart Health Secrets Through the Ages

By Rita E. Carey, MS, RD, CDE

Today’s Dietitian - Vol. 9 No. 8 P. 34

Studies have long examined what it is about the “Mediterranean” eating pattern that protects against heart disease. Does the answer lie in Crete?

Crete, the legendary birthplace of Zeus, has been a part of human history for 8,000 years. Paleolithic man arrived there around 6000 BC, and over millennia, people from a wide variety of cultures—Minoans, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and others—came to conquer and control the often prosperous and fertile island. Roughly 40 years ago, Crete became the birthplace of something new: the Mediterranean diet, a heart-healthy eating pattern that has become, for many, the de facto diet of anyone living in countries bordering the northern Mediterranean Sea.

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Cretan food, the Miracle of the Cretan Diet

Cretans lived on a subsistence regimen of wild greens and vegetables, fruits, legumes, bread and barley rusks, grains, little meat protein (mostly from fish - rare use of red meat), dairy products, honey and plenty of their native olive oil.

International researches have shown that the Cretan Diet offers people good health and long life.

Maria & Nikos Psilakis - (find the book on Cretan cooking and diet here)