An Introduction to Mediterranean Diet — Cretan Cooking Class

What to Expect

Join Kelly from The Hellenic Odyssey for a comprehensive introduction to the Mediterranean cuisine! Kelly is a Greek home cook with a proud heritage that has been passed down for generations. Now, she is ready to share all the secrets with you!

In this authentic class, you'll learn about the Mediterranean diet, its origins, and its proven physical and mental health benefits! You'll learn how to prepare traditional authentic dishes that you won’t commonly find in a Greek restaurant. Instead, it's food that you would expect to eat in the kitchen of a traditional Greek family home.

The Mediterranean Diet is not only about what we eat, but also in what setting we eat. Food makes us feel, it evokes emotions and memories. It rests of the premise that eating should bring people together and creates a sense of community. It's an inherent part of the human experience and therefore Mediterranean cuisine puts a lot of emphasis on the role of food within the home. 

This class will put that key element into practice; in a home environment, the meals will be prepared as a community. After the class, you'll sit down a the table to enjoy what you have created — together with your friends and family.

You'll experience the importance of the Greek traditions around food and feel that in the eyes of the Greeks, one's home is a welcome and hospitable environment that is open to everybody. 

Menu

• Entrees
• Fava yellow split pea dip
• Dakos, Cretan barley rusk with grated tomato and myzithra cheese
• Kalitsounia, hand made from scracth with filo pastry pies filled with local Cretan cheese and shallow fried until crispy and golden
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• Mains
• Gemista, seasonal vegetables filled with a rice and herb mixture then baked to perfection
• Chicken braise with tomatoes and olive oil, slow cooked
• Glykokolokithokeftedes, aromatic pumpkin, feta and herb fritters
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• Dessert
• Greek yoghurt with thyme infused Cretan honey, and fruit for dessert

Schedule

• 5:00 pm: Meet up Introduction 
• Start a hands-on cooking class
• Time to enjoy what you made 
• 8:00 pm: End of cooking class