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Vegetarian Food Tour in Greece

Join the Cretan hospitality! Cretans says that we have the finest gastronomical, tasty and healthy solutions proved and signed by the medical science society. Wild green pies, spinach pies, Raw veggies salads, Veggies in the pot or in oven Cretan traditional way, cooked a way only Cretans do, and much more. Enjoy food and cooking class that blend all the secrets particular of Crete and let you enjoy & learn about them first-hand alongside the locals.

I am George Portokalakis a passionate about Cretan food and culture and love to share this passion with my guests.

After spending over 40 years in the travel industry and cooking business, I would tell anyone willing to listen about the wonders of Cretan cuisine, the family warmth of the Cretan people, share the delights of Cretan cuisine and culture with few people who appreciate good, fresh, natural and healthy cooking and love slow food!

In areas little known to foreign tourism, you will learn the art of Cretan cuisine in a delightful country setting. Your instructors will be my self and native farm house ladies of the near region.

You will taste the best Cretan traditional foods - Vegetarian and non - that Crete has to offer and you will experience a way of life that very few foreigners will have the chance to experience

The packages we give, offer you the opportunity to enjoy the regional cuisine of Crete, as well as learn to prepare dishes from native farm house ladies and myself.

The instigator and creator was the famous American professor Ancel Keys, the Mr. Cholesterol in the way Americans called him as he was the first to connect “nutrition-heart” and started the research in the late 1940s and specifically in 1947.

In the research he included Greece after the initiative and the inducement of the Greek professor Mr Aravanis in 1954 when it was agreed to include Greece as it had some special nutritional characteristics.

In the research it was also included Italy, Holland, the Former Yugoslavia and now Serbia, Finland and Japan.

For Greece Crete and Corfu were chosen.

In Crete it was chosen a group of 620 residents in the rural area of Kastelli Pediados 50km away from Heraklion where their nutrition followed a typical diet of rural people with a big consumption of oil together with hard agricultural work that is body exercise on a daily basis and a year later a second group of other 620 residents in Corfu in a similar region 45km away from the Corfu city with almost the same diet habits.

Produced and created by talented Mr. Tarre Mike guest and dear friend of George Portokalakis founder of Porto Club travel services

Mike had the kindness to give Porto Club the authorization to upload this film on You Tube so anyone could see the beauty of Greece and the hospitality of the Greek people.

Tarre family spend 14 days in Greece 4 days Athens and Mainland, 7 days the island of Crete and 3 days in Santorini.

Beginning their journey in Greece, Tarre family, (Mike, Judy and their grand daughter Erica) was greeted by the Porto Club Athens ground travel partners and under the guidance and care of Porto Club Tours.

Porto Club Tours is a partner of Active Gourmet Holidays, one of the largest culinary travel companies in the USA.

Through Active Gourmet Holidays, travelers can discover the best Foodie and Leisure secrets Greece has to offer – and Porto Club Tours is definitely one of the best ways to experience Greece.

If in your future plans is a visit to Greece, you have to book with Active Gourmet Holidays and the local Greek partner Porto Club Tours, both, really knows how to treat their guests!
Contact Active Gourmet Holidays at joann@activegourmetholidays.com and Porto Club tours at portoclub@cyta.gr, you won’t regret it!

14 days / 13 nights

Pricing

$5.794

(For One Person, Double Occupancy based on 2 people)

Single use: + $884

THE ICON PAINTING & WOODCARVING EXPERIENCE

A R T I S T B I O G R A P H Y

The Cretan icon painter Dimitrios E. Manousakis born and grew up in Heraklion, Crete. Since his young age he showed a talent for Art, mixed media and especially painting. At the age of 15 Icon painting gain him. He began his studies at the Cretan Byzantine school of icon painting and at the same time was experimenting with various ways of painting, as well as studying them. (Icons, frescoes, paintings, portraits etc.) Always experimenting, he traveled for some time as a seaman in ships throughout the world. He extended his experiences and art techniques studying icon painting at the Mount Athos and other parts of Greece. Sometime later his dwellings stop. He return back to Cretegot married and sets up his own icon painting workshop. During his pursuits he got a great knowledge of wood and woodcarving,

Price per person

$1.150 / £760

Enjoy culinary explorations that blend all the secrets particular of the region of Crete and let you enjoy & learn about them first-hand alongside the locals.

Join local farm house ladies, on an intimate culinary holiday into the heartland of Cretan regional Vegetarian cuisine for a gastronomic tour for the ages.

CRETE

3 Nights / 4 Days

We designed this vegetarian tour so, that our guests can immerse themselves more fully in the culture of Crete and the treasure of its food.

Our commitment: Everything FRESH!!

Long life thanks to Natural, Fine, Authentic,

Mediterranean Cretan cuisine

CretanVegetarianLifeStyle

"T H E E S S E N C E O F O U R M A G N I F I C E N T C O U N T R Y"

JOIN a COOKING EXPERIENCE in CRETE

This offer is designed for individual travellers who are sojourning in our island and wish to know a bit of Crete, the country we, the Cretans know!

Get to know Crete a unique way, Her mountains, her villages, her cuisine and best of all her inhabitants.We offer you the means and the experience, our knowledge and connections and our love for the country we are living in.

Crete… my beautiful ISLAND

One Day Cookery Course

FISH AND SEA FOOD DAY

Cretan traditional Mediterranean food Cooking Course

and open food Market visit

You will learn how to cook the authentic Cretan style Egg and lemon rice fish or vegetable soup using fresh fish and seasonal products, enjoy the cooking experience and finish the adventure enjoying the wonderful lunch prepared in a friendly and casual atmosphere.

One Day Cookery Course

by Hadassah Patterson

So. You’d like to go to Greece. It is the land of beautiful isles, gorgeous waters and bountiful food.

But “Wait!” you say. “I’m vegan. Can I go there? Will I still eat well on vacation?”

TasteS of CRETE

PURE - UNSPOILED CRETE

Suitable: For vegetarian / vegan

We visit two places for wine tastings, both very different from each other. The wine tasting at the Union of Agricultural Co-operatives of Peza,

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One Day Cookery Course

VEGETARIAN

A Greek Culinary Experience: Land food and wine Adventure! Travel to Mythical Greece! One of the great food and wine regions of the world and Enjoy the Extraordinary Cuisine and award winning wines! Discover the wonderful vineyards of Northern Greece the wider Thessaloniki area,Central Greece and Mainland. Feel and taste few of the most famous wine labels in traditional family wineries.

This 6 night/7 day food and wine and cooking holiday is not only a unique cooking experience, but a chance to completely immerse you in the culture of Crete. Tour around the island, visit cultural sites and local producers and learn to cook authentic and delicious Cretan dishes Our Holiday sallow you to steep yourself in Cretan local history, taste and cook using the techniques of Cretan mothers, grand mothers, house ladies, absorb some of the most breathtakingly beautiful scenery that Crete has to offer and let the passion of the Cretan way of life take you to a whole new food and wine haven. more...

Suitable for: CELIAC, GLUTEN FREE. VEGETARIAN, VEGAN

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Contact: info@portoclub.gr

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