Tip of the day

Certainly for many centuries, Crete has offered a gastronomic education and a series of dishes which have travelled through time to arrive, almost unchanged, to the present day. Although the island has been a melting pot for almost all the peoples in the Mediterranean,

it seems that Cretan cuisine, despite its international past, has remained strictly Cretan and minimally influenced by the conquerors - in any case, any intermingling between the peoples happened violently and not peacefully.

The Cretan people depended for their food almost exclusively on the products of their earth. They have their own sauces, dairy products, specialties, sweet dishes, pulses. This is a very egoistic opinion you will tell me. Well, come with me and let us see.

Have you heard anywhere else of eating papoules, stamnagathi, rodiki, korfokoukia, daisy shoots or mosses? Well, here are the specialty salads, always raw and always cooling, and with plenty of oil, vinegar and coarse salt, with a few wrinkled olives. So, if you find yourself in Crete during spring or autumn, don’t forget to ask for some of these.