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Guided Cooking Tour of Crete Explores Island’s Local Cuisine and Ancient Minoan Culture. 7 Days Vegan Culinary Tour in Crete with Accommodations, All Meals and Hands on Culinary Classes!!
This holiday is for people who would like to learn the culture of Crete, to visit and walk the ruins ancient civilizations and join basic skills in preparing the famous Cretan traditional Mediterranean Vegetarian Cuisine. They will gain hands on experience through class participation.

PRICE PER PERSON: $ 580 / £ 383

BASED ON MINIMUM 2 PERSONS

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.

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.

AN IDEAL TOUR THAT WILL SATISFY EVERY WINE LOVER!

Spend fourteen wonderful days in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, Thessaly and Mainland! Combine wine with culture and nature! And this Wine tour is not only about wine! Visit important archaeological sites like the museum of Vergina and learn about local customs. Fill in your batteries in the beauty of learn about Greek wine and food! And this tour will prove that Greek wine is very interesting!

As Crete boasts of the unique culture and cuisine and Cretans knows that they have the finest gastronomical, tasty and healthy solutions proved and signed by the medicalscience society (Cretan Traditional Mediterranean Cuisine and Nutrition), this weekend food and wandering break is an excellent way of experiencing the all the aspects in one + one exciting day out.

Spend two fabulous days discovering the sights, sounds and flavours of Crete. Tastes unique, mouth watering and above all, all those given with a smile coming deep from their heart…

You will experience the best street food of Heraklion, the beautiful sight of the palace of Knossos, the delightful taste of Cretan Shepherds traditional cuisine in the mountains of Crete. This unforgettable journey into the cultural and gastronomic heart of Crete will satisfy every appetite.

Price per person: $498

Based on minimum: 2 persons

NOTICE: Week end can be extended as many days as visitors wish. Each extra day charged $249

On Your Dates: Email us with your desired date. (All Year round)

Additional information: minimum participation 2 persons

NOTICE:

SOLO TRAVELERS CAN BOOK THE TOUR ON PRIVATE - TAILOR MADE BY PAYING THE COST OF TWO PERSONS. When you book, reserve space for two persons.

Vegetarian Food Tour in Greece

In the Cretan kitchen all foods based on Goat cheese (Chevre cheese) called “Mizithra” (salted, sour or unsalted) are very popular.

One of them are the “Mizithropitakia” little semicircular Mizithra cheese pies considered more as dessert which are fried and thanks to the imagination of the Cretan women the result in these little cheese pies is as pretty as it is savoury!

There are many ways of preparing these cheese pies and according the region having different names as well as “kalitsounia”, “nerates mizithropites “ , “agnopites”, “sarikopites”, “sfakianopites” depending the shape they give but here we follow one of them the kalitsounia from Heraklion region.

We serve them with honey or sugar and cinnamon

ENJOY!

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.

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,

COOKING HOLIDAYS IN CRETE: NOW'S THE TIME TO BOOK!!!

Dear friends,

Good day from Crete-

Greece

and PORTO CLUB Food, Wine, Culture and Cooking Holidays

Despite of what you may hear or read, Greece remains one of the TOP HOLIDAY destinations, offering numerous opportunities for unforgettable travel experiences

Thousands of travellers share this as we speak, in our country, in a totally safe and pleasant environment, enjoying their holidays in Greece, the Greek Islands, mainland and certainly our island Crete!!!

Grab the opportunity now to join the very special offer with PORTO CLUB

CRETE

Traveling escape the vegetarian / vegan way

GreekVegetarianLifeStyle

We offer a unique opportunity to experience at first hand authentic Cretan regional cooking techniques and recipes that have been developed and handed down over generations.

All of the ingredients you will use are bought each morning from local open market and so you will be working with fresh fruit and vegetables in season. Throughout our cooking you will learn about the ingredients and the traditions around the dishes You will learn the passion of the Cretan kitchen and, importantly, have a lot of fun and enjoyment doing it.

Sincerely

George Portokalakis

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"

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! Crete… my beautiful ISLAND

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.

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!

Crete… my beautiful ISLAND

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?”

CLASSICAL GREECE & ALEXANDER THE GREAT

14 days / 13 nights

Based on minimum 2 persons

CHARTERED VEHICLE – PRIVATE DRIVER – MEALS INCLUDED

Price per person: $5.555

Price includes:

$5.555

FLIGHT TICKETS IN GREECE

Flight tickets for the connected flight by arrival to Greece ATHENS /THESSALONIKI:

ACCOMMODATION:

13 nights hotel accommodation / double occupancy at 5***** & 4**** hotels

MAINLAND & PELOPONESE

VISITS TO:

ATHENS – DELPHI – OLYMPIA – MANI - DIROU CAVE - SPARTA - NAFPLION -MYCENAE – EPIDAVROS – CORINTH – MARATHON – SOUNION – ACROPOLIS – NEW MUSEUM OF ATHENS - ATHENS

9 DAYS / 8 NIGHTS

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,

Food and Wine Tous in Crete

AN IDEAL TOUR THAT WILL SATISFY EVERY WINE LOVER!

Vegetarian Food Tour in Greece

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