Small coastal towns in Crete are fantastic for food and culture. It is so easy to fall into the lifestyle. As an Englishman who is used to 3 meals a day (usually all with meat), I, without noticing, mostly lived off fresh bread, yoghurt,thyme honey and fruit and veg. The quality of the bread, fruit and veg is the best I have had. I would score this Island very highly for the quality of produce coupled with the simple recipes.

I’ve travelled in various parts of Greece, however Crete in my favourite because of the people and food. 🇨🇦🇬🇷

I am so proud to be Cretan! My papou was a famous musician from spilt. His name was giorgios kalogridis 🇬🇷

Eat seasonal, eat fresh, drink wine, reduce meat and stress. That's the secret of the traditional greek diet.

I have so many fond memories of Crete. Such a beautiful place! I loved Greek mythology as a child. Devoured all the stories! I feel like I have piece of Greece in my heart 🇬🇷

'Greece' is a truely Beautiful Country and god bless this Extraordinary place, best wishes from the Country of ' Ireland ' .

Keep it up Greece! You will get out of all the problems. I am sure. There is no country like Greece, with it's incredible history, cuisine, people and it's incredible beauties. We all support you and we know you will shine again like you always have done! When you think about Europe and the western civilization that covers about 60% of the world, it's light and core is Greece!

It a shame to see that 94 people didn't like anything about Crete. I really wonna know why. Κρήτη αγαπημένη, με τους λεβέντες σου και τις κοπελιές σου να είσαι πάντα καλά.

Greeks are such sweet people

...Love Food from Greece...

olives, bread, olive oil, rosemary, and sea-salt plus some red wine on a hot summer night. I can't think of anything that can beat that!

If you have the means, Crete delivers a wonderful travel experience. If you can only visit one town for a short stay, I recommend Chania. But, really, go big and rent a car and drive the island over a few weeks. The topography and coastline will blow your socks off, let alone the hospitality and food. Pack swim goggles too.

Beautiful, my husband and I would love to move there, beautiful country.

There are many things that are similar and many things that are different between Greek and Italian kitchens; the one thing that I believe is exactly the same is that everyone's Yaya/Nonna/Grandma is the undisputed BOSS of the food... Have you ever seen 12 grandmas fight amongst themselves in a home kitchen? It's not going to happen. (Don't get me wrong, they get along and cook nicely together at church, but their private home kitchens and their family recipes are a different story)... It's totally possible that Grandma might not talk to Auntie for 3 weeks because they got into a battle about how to properly load the dishwasher; can you imagine the chaos of more than one "Chef-Grandma" per kitchen? Heads would roll and the family would dissolve!

I am American but thanks to Theia Antonia..I make FABULOUS dolmas...

As a Cretan I want to thank you about this beautiful video and I want to call you to visit the eastern side of Creta ( Agios Nikolaos, Ierapetra and Sitia )

My favourite place on Crete is a small town/village called Kato Gouves, about 20 minutes from Heraklion . as far as I am concerned it is as close to heaven as i have ever experienced.

Beautiful Island, beautiful people producing beautiful, nourishing healthy food.

Most Magnificent Country I've been in Crete island xania village sweet friendly atmosphere wow missed them really I would l8ke to visit again...love u Create Xania people

Greek island food reminds me of floridas cooking in the keys. Much love greece 🇬🇷🇺🇸

This is great and will hopefully stay like that for a long time to come. Crete is wonderful.

Following up on the comment of Ptolemy336vv, made six years ago......so on July 12, 2020, some six years later, Greece is doing well and it is a very pleasant place to visit. But for COVID-19, Greece would have been even more pleasant and joyful. I plan to buy a house overlooking the water near Chania, Crete and enjoy year around warm summers and mild winters and enjoy wonderful Cretan hospitality.

Love Crete 💙❤💚💛 Was in Chania last Sept. 2018. Their food is so tasty !! The rusks ( paksimadia ) are used in the tomato salad with goat cheese in the salad. It is to die for! 💚💛❤💖

The beauty of simplicity. This is Greece even in its food. Excellent food, not because of complicated cooking recipes, but because of the excellent quality of the ingredients, which are prepared with a lot of love.

I love crete! best people ever!

........... Oh the scents ..... freshness! ..... luscious taste of Greek's food culture! .... Dynamite sharing! ....... .

greetings from crete

A wonderful Island

Wonderful piece. Loved every minute

Excellent film on food of Crete, well presented with good examples

My favorite cheese of all time, mizithra, originated on Crete. It is basically a special vairant of feta/goat cheee that's much softer and saltier too, as well as better tasting in my opinion. And it tastes so good when you melt it. However, if you ever get hold of it and try to melt it, and it just burns like regular feta, just melt it with a "double boiler," meaning put it in a bowl over steam, but remember to add a bit of milk to it, or it won't become a cheese sauce but probably just burn a bit like before. Melted mizithra tastes amazing when poured over meat skewers :D

This reminds me very much of our traditional Romanian cuisine. It's pure eating, pure living and working hard, but in the end it's so worth it.

Would love to visit Crete one day 🛫

7:38 A most excellent presentation by George, very well-spoken and informative.

I am Montagnard jarai indigenous live in United States hope one day I will travel to Grete the food looks good .

Magnificent video. Love the food of Crete and the markets.

Love Crete. I used to visit twice a year and stay at a Cretan friend's pension (she always gave me room no.8). It's a beautiful and rugged island with the same climate at Sicily.

So proud i'm from Crete

Dictamo grows only in Crete but Sage grows everywhere in Hellas..Specially in Macedonia and Thrace!

Thanks for sharing your good ways, to cook and appreciate traditional Greek Foods ...

@5:27: that is a Roti Prata (we call it Roti Prata in Singapore). Except we fill it with onions, eggs or mutton or whatever you like. Then it's grilled/heated to a crispy pancake-style. Served with curry dip.

Υπεροχο video, απολυτως αντιπροσωπευτικο για την Κρητικη κουζινα! Πολλα μπραβο σ'αυτους που το γυρισαν!

Great video! Good job!

Crete is on my bucket list--and after watching this video, I'm even more intrigued.

The basics of a healthy longevity are found here, as well as in Okinawa and Adventists in California. They use common ingredients, plenty of fresh vegetables and herbs with limited content of animal foods usually.

Great video

Bougatsa is Love, Bougatsa is Life.

Delicious Greek Coffee.

Beautifull

Love this, need some recipes, for health purposes for my spouse! Thanks for sharing your beautiful heart with me!

It seems so delicious and so good ...

5:47 Daaaaaang! ❤ I gotta get to Greece, Ikaria island preferably but I would certainly love to spend time in Crete, what a magnificent region!

Talking about a known cooks are many of them are the finest :) Nothing they brag about it's about tradition with amazing skilling technics!

I was stationed there in the Air Force in the 1970's. I loved the place, but wish I had taken more advantage of the local cuisine other than an occasional meal off the base.

You should always eat regional, seasonal, fresh and organic food - no matter where you live. Little meat, a lot of vegetables, fruit, spices and any produce of nature. Cooking yourself is key as processed food includes too many chemicals, sugar, salt and/or glutamate. Decent amount of physical work, an inner philosophy of enjoying life and not taking oneself too serious completes the picture.

So beautiful 🌱🌸🌎

Awesome! I particularly loved the olive oil guy. But, it was all great. Thanks.

I’d move back there in a heartbeat!

Beautiful

great tasty video :) happy 2022

This video presentation is very nicely done by you ... *I liked to see the video and raise the thumb 1.004 far up !* ... I wish you and all your loved ones a pleasant week and send a sunny smile ; )) from Germany from *" Eddy "*

GREETING FROM CRETE.......NICE VIDEO

Lovely

I would love to try all of these foods.

Love Crete (and it's food..and people...and language) :-) Perhaps because my wife is from Crete and will kill me deader than hell if I don't say stuff like that :-D

Nice Video

bravo!

Love this video. Food looks so delicious and I just ate. :)

12:22 I didn't know Tony Soprano opened a restaurant in Crete

in fact , the Island Cooking of Crete is just much less cooking ! I came across the theory that olive oil due to polyunsaturated 24 acid insulates the neurons and makes them transmit many times faster than neurons who get the acid not from olive oil but is produced in the liver, maybe an explanation for creative pro human civilazations vs producing ones ;-)

2.47 Sage doesn't grow only in Crete, it grows all over Greece.

I am grateful for my Cretan ancestral heritage.

I like this video

So delicious!😋

dat cheese @ 3:36

And for some other type of special trees too! ;)

is there a link to import some of that wheel crushed olive oil from the island? I'd love to purchase some!

hmmmm lamb head in Crete is so good and souvlaki too mmmm

Wow. I want to visit you guys only to taste food.

3:37 Fresh Malaka for filling pies? That's new.

Fresh malaka !!! woooop

What is the best Greek olive oil to purchase ? We’ve been looking and looking

living in London,honestly i miss my country

15 years organically farming olives in Sitia can only agree. It's the place to live.

Where rosemary was not mentioned?

nice

moderate amount of wine and raki? please be honest...

Tops ever LOve Crete so much ..........topssssssssss

Glad you enjoyed the Malaka...MALAKA!!

What was that herb the owners were touting as a cure-all in the shop? I can't quite pick up the phonetic.

The best of the best

I thought it was seafood based but it is much more based on fresh plants, good amount of olive oil and dairy.

"The Cretan diet consists of... small amounts of milk" *fills pie with like 3 pounds of goat cheese*

What are 5 dishes that is extremely famous in Crete and home of Crete? I'd like to know from someone true to Crete as google leads me astray.

On my way over.

ohhhh I want to taste that cheesy thing.!

greek don't cook fish with extra virgin olive oil, they cook extra virgin olive oil with fish

Thank you!

Fresh malaka!!! haha

"Rockerfeller medical research team were surprised to finds Cretans were healthier than Americans"; hilarious.