"The food is really an excuse to get together, the food is centre of a community" so true all over the Mediterranean.

This whole video - the sounds, the people, the conversation - is just so soothing and heavenly.

I'm a 2nd generation Cretan-American and honestly, this has been one of the most pleasant videos I've seen of Crete in a while. Great job.

I must say that as a Greek and as a cook myself I was impressed by the dishes Yotam created combining Greek and middle eastern ingredients even the dessert with the feta cheese. He is a very creative cook the dishes looked delicious.

7 minutes into this and already it's my favourite meditarreanean cooking series

Yotam is sooo charming. He has a very special aurea , wonderful food btw

38:30 I died laughing.. felt like a Mony Python meets Borat comedy sketch.. was waiting for them to finish the meat with a generous serving of sun tea! 🌦 The deconstructed feta cheese cake looked amazing..

I'm Sardinian but i've been living in Ireland for a while and... in a week I'll be in Crete for a week! Can't wait!

I really enjoy myself watching his shows in Australia. I love the food he cooks, and I find him very friendly with everybody, wherever he goes.I learned so much about other cultures. Thank you so much for sharing this.

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE COOKS /CHEFS- Everything he cooks makes me want to try because i know it will be Delishous with all that Olive oil 100% Healthy . thank you Yotam Ottolenghi .

Todah rabah. Fantastic ! And thanks for the beautiful books you published. Kol aKavod !

Visit Crete and The fantastisc food. The beautiful food and wonderful people with extreme hospitality. Moussaka. Dolmades zatziki. Gemista. Souvlaki taramo,salata. Calamares Oktapoudi. Choriatiki Salata with a lot of feta. Oliver oil and olivers. And of course oregano. Ouzo Raki or krasi crio.Kali oraxi. 🍱 🍤🍠🥒🍆

The chickpea recipe amazing!

I'm vegan but enjoyed seeing the country thanks! I will be able to veganise some of the dishes ; )

THIS IS HEAVEN ! THANK YOU! HUGS FROM LAGUNA BEACH CALIFORNIA!

I adore Ottolonghi ....I have all his books and have tried a lot of his recipes.

I love Creta ! :)

I love the way you embraced the Greek culture!

i like it that the herbs are in bags. easily thrown away rather than a hard plastic container. my desire to speak with boldness tells me. that we need to get rid of containers. ive been thinking of turning off my refrigerator. something ive learned from watching these shows from these areas of the world. is that fresh and cooked that day may be a better way to go. especially if im looking to have a smaller electric bill. so i can pay my bills since ive been unemployed recently. thank you for the wonderful learning and thank you for visiting the people i love learning about them.

Loved everything. Yhank you for sharing.

Love Greek culture, can’t get enough, thank you 🙏

i love the fact that there are no tweezers to be seen!

It is the very first time I have this pleasant oportunity of listening and seeing Yotham's experiences. I'm just loving it!

Well thats made my mind up!! Booking for next year asap. My daughter really wants to visit a Greek island. ..so Crete it is ❤

What lovely people! I wish I could meet each of you!

So beautiful Yotam is my all time most favorite chef. Lovely video. Thank you.

This guy could make dog food and it would be the best tasting dish ever! He's such a good cook.

Wonderful! going to Crete next week, mmmm can't wait to taste these delicious meals. And yes Yotam's humor is contagious x

Sweet kind wonderful people on the Island of Crete❤️❤️❤️

Lovely cretan cookery

I live in Northern Greece and I'm sooo jealous right now.

This is a fantastic celebration of the flavors and traditions from the Greek Islands. I learned a few things. I'm looking forward to preparing a few recipes from this program in my kitchen. Thanks for sharing. Have a good week.

Fantastic, loved every minute of this travelogue about the island of Crete, amazing food, amazing people!!!!

I lived in this region of the world for a time, ie Syria, and just love all of this food especially the vegetarian ones as I'm a veggi. I've always been afraid of cooking ocra but perhaps I'll give it another go now.

Thank the Greeks for bringing this culture to the middle east.

I LOVE these videos: thank you so much for posting them! We live in Cape Town, and regularly go down to a hidden-away little fishing village for weekends - a village on a lagoon that time forgot. Who inspires the feasts we prepare there? Yotam!

Thank you for the video. I am looking for more videos from his Mediterranean island feast.

Very nice video! Just to mention that stuffing vegetables(gemista) is not just a cretan food, it's popular all over Greece.

so much passion and good cooking !!!! Love it...!!!

yotam , i love you. you're an amazing chef :*

Amaaaazing!!

I love that spitting technique to season the lamb I'm going to do it

this is awesome, love it

What a nice guy he is.Beautiful food too.

Reminds me of Chumirchen where I grew up ... the food except that it used to be Pork rosat blood sausages et al...

A truly great chef

Great chef ,love his cooking

what people do not know is that the continent of Europe took that name because of the princess of Crete named Ευρωπη(Europe)the myth of the island of Crete

God bless Mediterranean food. Best food in the world and very similar to creole food.

I love this video 🤩

Amazing

Wonderful. Wish I had the recipes!

That's great

I will be in Crete for most of the summer. I’d love to know where to get that lamb anticristo!

Looks good

This is the diet my doctor wants me to follow, hence, I am getting as much information that has evolved because certain information has changed (like eat margarine... really?). I wish I was in their country and enjoying the company, the food and the beautiful scenary. Ahhhh!

Yotam go to Georgia 🇬🇪 you will find new food world 🌎 so testy so unique

Sorry, very funny. “Spit” roasting. I’ll use a spray bottle. Really awesome video though. The food is beautiful and the envirinment.

best island by far love that place if God gives me that pleasure I will like to die there

38:15 ,the funniest thing I've ever seen 🤣

for my taste, mediterranean cuisine is truly the best, even if I also really like other culinary traditions, especially asian...

This is wonderful! Would love to visit and eat, eat, eat❤️ no obesity! Lovely❤️

" ohh there is a bunch of you .. " ROFL ( @6:10 )

44:05 that girl seems really excited for the food

coool done nice. some more local musicians . rembetika?

I LOVE FOOD

Mediterranean food is about: Bread; Goat Cheese or other type of product sheep's dairy; Tomatoes; Olives; Olive Oil; Herbs and Spices; Lamb Meat (in some countries also pork and sausages/salami/ham ); Wine; Fishes and sea food in general; Some pastry with flavoring or chesse.

had to stop watching because I almost called the airlines to go !

Got ideas what to cook for xmas xx

Anyone got a link for the other episodes in this series? This seems to be the only one I can find.

❤

Hello I am going to visit Crete on September...could you please tell me some unique places in Heraklion for example beaches,.. and something which I really have to see except the Knossos, Dikteon Andron...(where I will go of course)... something special and unique... thank you very much.. :)

What is the website for the recipes?

Does anyone have a suggestion on what kind of bread to substitute if dakos is not available where I am? A day old French bread maybe?

Hey, on that first dakos recipe, would I be a total barbarian if I just ate it instead of cooking it for 20 minutes? :) It looked fantastic raw! Or would the bread be too hard?

Yotam u remind me so much of Jeff Goldblum

this is real food.

This man is an international treasure

Where can I find the recipe for that cherry cheesecake recipe?!

Yep,my next holiday, I'm interested in scrapyards,recycling yards,industrial estates and where the poor folk lives

40:27 it's called PORK KALAMAKI not souvlaki....souvlaki consists of pieces of grilled meat wraped around a pita pie along with tomatoes,onions,tzatziki,parsley,paprika and optional potatoe chips...it takes it's name from the souvla which is the grill....any meat that's just pierced through a stick and then bbq'ed on each side is called kalamaki...so the correct name is pork kalamaki,chicken kalamaki etc etc and that's the proper way to ask for it whenever you visit greece regardless of what some idiots might tell you

The music! I give you a suggestion ! Any time you are or introducing a country play the local music! 👍🏻

How is the restaurant called where the guys were making Feta?

Τι εννοείς between mainland greece, κολυμπώντας πας στη Κρήτη απ τη Μάνη κι απ τη Ρόδο, ακούς εκεί between...

ottoman yolenghi. I like his name

How many Giorgos there are in Crete

and the first food is simply called TYROPITA(CHEESEPIE) with honey,cinnamon and sugar....not bougatsa lol...bougatsa is a sweet pie it NEVER consists of cheese for the filling....only sweet creme filling with cinamon and fine sugar springled on top,so the CORRECT name for the first food is TYROPITA

he totally guzzle spit the lamb

38:40 !

If the bread is made with Barley instead of Wheat, how does it rise?

ive been praying for the paradise to get here. and spreading the goodnews of GODS kingdom. the bible says we should do it with boldness. in ephesians chapter 6 it says, open your mouth and speak with boldness about the goodnews. and that we can save both ourselves and those who listen to us. and that it makes our hope more sure. also the women proclaiming the goodnews are a large army. my hope is that other people can spread this goodnews. revelation 21:3,4 says look the tent of GOD is with mankind he will be with them and they will be his peoples. he will wipe out every tear from their eyes and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry or pain be anymore the former things have passed away. im so looking forward to this. and i wonder what people that have been knowing this for so long in the areas of the bible lands and there abouts think about each day. and how long weve been waiting for this system to end. yall have like an old world style and way of being and living, that has clung to you, and your alls hope for the future. we could learn alot from yall. i would rekon thats why we have the bible. so we can learn how to be an awake person.

Also too many times you mention the Middle East ! Kriti is not Meddle East !!!

Hello, is Yotam moroccan, Tunisian, Algerian ? .

hasp technique!

He sees his culture in Crete because people like to find everything similar to their cultures and ways .... hence why this guy keeps mentioning how he feels as if the spices and cooking is so much like eastern! Ummmmm hello Crete has been one of the most secluded islands of Greece/Europe so the Cretans had to live off of the island itself and that is why Greece today is well known for its healthy mediterranean lifestyle cooking!!!!!!!!

12:47 "Semen"???

Very nice! But we DON'T prepare antikrysto like this 😅😅😅

Dakos

Drizzle roasted pumpkin oil

is a Greek panzanella