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Crete Eating & Drinking
Crete is famous for its tasty and healthy cuisine. Visitors can join in the hundreds of fiestas going on in villages complete with live folk music.
Crete has an assortment of delicious locally produced cheeses, such as Graviera (hard cheese), Myzitra (cheese of ewe's milk), Anthotiros (soft spring cheese).
One of the most traditional dishes of Crete is snails. Smoked ham and smoked sausages are also traditional meat items as well as mountain goat or lamb cooked in different techniques. Cretan pilaf is a mouth-watering combination of chicken and lamb risotto served with goat's butter. Another delicacy is the souvlaki, which is pork meat, lamb, chicken or fish cooked on skewers.
Sardines, Red mullets, fried squids, Atherina (fried tiny fishes), Roasted Octopi and wine-cooked octopi are seafood delicacies.
Dakos (Cretan rusk with tomato, feta cheese, olives, oregano and olive oil), Horta vrasta (boiled greens,olive oil and lemon juice), Greek salad(cucumber, tomatoes, onion, feta cheese and olives) are appetizing salads. Fried courgettes, fried eggplants and courgette crockets are also popular vegetables.
Amigdaloto is a popular made with almonds as well as Greek yogurt with honey.
Tsikoudia, or "raki" is the trademark Cretan drink. It is made out of the 'must' of grape skins and twigs after the local production of the white wine
Cretan wine was produced in the island for at least 4000 years.
Travel guide to Crete
Eating & Drinking
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