Emeraldisle4ever ahhh i truly love Ireland. I lived in Belfast for one year, and tried to visit as many places as I could... It is just a truly beautiful country...Love from Greece!
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.
Every one all over the world drinks wine fella it's not greek it's global culture more cows are there now than years ago it no meat that is propaganda western propaganda rubbish it's part of the west agenda fake news lies as always nothing more than that from Marcus in australia no comment needed or like.
I’ve visited there. They eat a lot more meat than videos like these lead on. They eat lots of organ meats. They aren’t eating beans as their main protein like everyone tries to make the public believe. They also smoke at a high rate as well but no one seems to mention that.
@@lozgod yeah but u only eat a lot of meat in the streets as fast food or at a restaurant but not that much at home.sadly the meat dishes are pur best dishes lol
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@brettbodie1576 cretans and generally greeks eat meat BUT Rarerly fried. ( grilled, oven)in the oven usually cooked together with the vegetables so everything is connected. P. S almost forgot, WINE 🍷 red/white/roze doesn't matter just drink it with the meal and socialize
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.
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 ;-)
Another theory is that having an unnaturally high level of polyunsaturated fats and oils in the diet affects the cholesterol that insulates the nerves. This explains why Americans have been crazy since the 1970's ... Or was it the trans fats in margarine made from hydrogenated vegetable oils?
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
I think Cyprus is larger than Crete. Cyprus is a Greek island, but for political and recent historical factors it is not part of the present Greek state/polity. However Cyprus is as much culturally Greek as Crete.
My HORRIBLE exhusband had ONE GOOD ASSET..... his Theia Antonia...she was from Crete...she was an angel who was looked down on by the phoney NJ Greek Americans in the "family"... SHE WAS WONDERFUL!❤️
Maria Kocheila gemista*. gemista means stuffed/filled, in greek (plural) . its basically vegetables stuffed with rice, the flesh of the vegies and herbs (parsley and mint) and backed in the oven. usually tomatoes, green bellpeppers and aubergines are used but u can find also stuffed zucchini,zucchini flowers,and rarely vine leaves,big onions or mushrooms but in the houses most times its tomatoes, green bell peppers and aubergines. oh, and dont even think eating gemista without a lot of good feta cheese.its a perfect marriage gemista with feta.
diasspeed Crown Pembroke The best greek summer food. Feta is a must with it. Also, some people like to add an ammount of minced meat in their Gemista. Also, pro tips: Add a pinch of graviera cheese or even italian parmesan for a fusion twist in the stuffing. Thank me later. And, cover the top of each of the Gemista with grounded rusk, before the oven.
Biodiversity is being devastated on Crete, with over-reliance on olives and climate change exacerbating poor water management. Otherwise, yes, all these items are there, more or less, But it is becoming scarce.
Healthy Food alone does nothing. People in the past were walking for hours to get around. They worked in fields or with animals in the mountains. They swam every day. So they were burning fat. Now people drive with their fancy cars and work in modern cells.
Fish is not meat and just because there is lamb displayed doesn't mean that they are eating that daily. Crete, as well as most of Southern Europe around the Mediterranean, eat meat once or twice, at the most, weekly. The portions are usually less than 3 oz per person when indulging in red meat. I lived in Sicily for a year and ate red meat once a week. It was mostly vegetables, fish, beans, and some cheese. Little meat and pasta or high processed foods. Healthiest year of my life!
Do they do an all day english brekky with english bread, english sausage, english black pudding, english chips, english beans, english tea with english sugar, english mushrooms, english forks and knives to east it with..........Like our english island Tenerife.
yes they do eat alot of meat look around the farm's goat lamb this is meat right? they serve meat and veges it's just cooked defferent like with no gmo's
It has nice food but quite boring in the long run. I also miss allot of specialty shops, like asian stuff. Sambal for example u cannot find in thé supermarkets. U notice that their interest in foreign food is very limited, think it has to do with it never had a colonial past, or did they?
When you add sugar and sweets into the equation, and people riding around in cars instead of walking, you lose much of the health benefit from the diet.
@Ross W Well the truth is that those who actually follow that diet are really healthier and live a long Life. If you look at the older cretans (over 70 yo) you almost see no one fat but the middle aged people and the younger ones actually eat more meat, drink more alcohol, work in less hard jobs as modern life allows them to. Still the usage of olive oil and the fresh vegies they eat at home is giving them more chances to live healthier than others.
we eat meat once or twice a week , we eat fish 2-3 times and the rest of the week , lentils , chickpeas , stuffed tomatoes peppers and eggplants also other vegetables. lots of olive oil honey and tea
No it's how the filling of stuffed vegetables is made for cooking in oil purposes and its delicious. The filling is in rather small portions in each vegetable and of course you don't eat it by itself. Most of the olive oil stays in the tray, you get a juicy but drier than you imagine result. Its heavenly food and very healthy
Most of Greece , except for the big cities , Heraklion on Crete being one, doesn’t have a tradition of eating out, I’ve lived on Cyprus, holidayed on Crete, & many other islands , I love Greece & it’s people but cannot recommend it for food, sorry.
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.
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!
@@jackh4720 In Greece, we aren't divided in subcategories. We're all one, we're all Greeks. You're a Greek from Crete. I'm a Greek from Thessaloniki etc. Just trying to inform you about our situation, since you were born in New York and I assume you don't have extensive knowledge of Greece. In short, the term "Greek" always goes first, even before religion, in case you're Christian. There's nothing holier and more glorious than the single fact of being a Greek. No religion, no particular birthplace can surpass it. Be proud wherever you are at the moment. "Greekness" is a gift by Zeus himself to his loyal people.
@@Gyneco-Phobia Well, as a Greek myself (from Athens), my fellow Greeks from Crete never forget to remind me that they are from Crete and that Crete, for them at least, is like a different country. :D
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 🇬🇷
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!
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
