Sweet of grapes
For 3 jars of one kilogram we will need: 3 pounds grapes 1.5 kg sugar 5 vanilla 3 branches of marjoram Juice of one lemon Clean and rinse the grapes. In…
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A sweet custom of the New Year's Day
Bougatsa is the sweet… custom of the New Year’s Day and Heraclion. Tones of bougatsa are consumed by the people of Heraclion in the night of the New Year’s Eve…
Crete Culture
Sweet Easter Delicacies
Sweets should be with a great smell, taste and appearance. How else would someone like them? Here is a very delicious recipe to treat your guests (and, of course,…
Crete Recipes
Sweet mantinades: The most sweet custom
A tender and… sweet custom is kept till today in the area of Apostoloi Pediados. That is the sweet mantinades (i.e. Cretan folk couplets) custom that they are lyrics…
Crete Culture
Easter customs
Do only lichnarakia, anevata (i.e. traditional sweets with mizithra), Easter eggs and roasted lamb or antikristo (i.e. lamb cooked opposite the fire) define Easter…
Crete Culture
Pumpkin soup
For the soup: 500 gr pumpkin 2-3 potatoes 2 carrots 1 onion 1 clove of garlic A little ginger 100 gr of cream Salt Pepper Paprika sweet For the garnish: Croton…
Crete Recipes
The healing herbs
The flora of Crete is very important due to the mild and hot climate. There are 2000 different plant species and 160 of them are indigenous. The large number of…
Crete Cretography
The products of vineyard, the by-products and the edible grapes
The vineyard crop was an art coming from the Minoans since the First Minoan Years. About 4.000 years before, the grape was a necessary fruit in the diet of the…
Crete Products
Honey, the liquid medicine of our diet
The Cretan honey was famous in all over the world from the ancient times due to its taste and its thyme (honey with thyme). Beekeeping in Crete has been popular…
Crete Products
Olive Oil, the present of nature to people
The olive production was recorded for the first time in the Minoan Crete, 3500 years ago. Findings like clay pots with olive oil and urns with edible olives in…
Crete Cretography
Cretan wines
“The wine makes the poor rich in imagination and the rich poor in reality” Plato The wine in Crete has been produced since the Minoan Years. The Minoans cultivated…
Crete Products
Halvas with raisins and pine nuts
Here’s a delicious and Lenten sweet! Ingredients: 2 cups of semolina 2/3 glass of olive oil 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1 handful of pine nuts 1 handful of raisins 2…
Crete Recipes
Wedding's customs
The weddings in Crete are a very important event not only for the couple and their parents but also for the whole community. All the people take part in the joy…
Crete Culture
Small meat pies
Small pies (fried pies) are often served in the houses of Crete that, apart from ksinomizithra (i.e. sarikopites) or sweet mizithra or herbs, they can be filled…
Crete Recipes
Anogeia
Anogeia of Milopotamos is a mountain town with important history and three holocausts. Anogeia preserves the Cretan tradition in the modern Crete. Anogeia is the…
Rethimno Towns and villages
The myth of Neraidospilios
Neraidospilios is 20km south of Heraklion, in the green gorge of Astraki. According to the legend, in the Fairy Cave of Astrakas located in the gorge of Karteros,…
Heraklion Lakes Hiking
Marathos
The mountainous Marathos village of the Malevizi municipality is about 20 kilometers from Heraclion and 300 meters above the sea level. The Marathianos River is…
