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Cretan weavings and embroidery
The embroideries of Crete are famous for their colorful representations, with themes from both nature and everyday life as well as motifs borrowed from the Minoan and Byzantine tradition of the island.
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The Cretan knife
There is no questioning the sentimental and military value the Cretans hold for their knives and daggers, passing them from generation to generation, gifting them as a token of friendship, respect, honor, and love.
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Olive oil
Olive oil is simply the fatty liquid produced by crashing and squeezing the olive. There is nothing more added to the final product. It’s quality though is depended on a variety of factors that are tightly controlled by today’s producers, based on millennia of experience and tradition.
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Fish and fishing
The Cretans were throughout their history very close to the sea, and a large part of the inhabitants were either fishermen or merchants by sea, so both fish and seafood were usually a central part of Cretan cuisine. Cretan seas offer fish of supreme quality.
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Meat and livestock
Crete has always been a small livestock island. The traditional Cretan meat is lamb and goat to a lesser degree – in contrast to the rest of Greece, where pork and beef predominate.
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Cretan diet
Cretan diet Crete has one of the oldest and most delicious cuisines in the world. It is that long tradition of flavors, fragrances, materials and styles that has its origins in the Minoan era and is preserved until our days. According to the findings of the archaeological excavations, it seems that the ancient Cretans 4,000…
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Phyllo
Phyllo in Greek means leaf-like and it is the perfect word to describe the paper thin leafy sheets of dough which during the preparation process are sandwiched together and they puff up during cooking to resemble the thickly compressed pages in an old book.
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Dairy
The livestock of Crete has not changed its character since the ancient times. It relies on small animals, sheep and goats and not at all on cattle, free grazing in the herbs and shrubs of the Cretan mountainsides. The combination of the unique flora of the island with the local animal breeds contributes to having…