Food Odyssey
The tour is also available on request, when time permits. Please contact to add dates.
Travel off the beaten tourist path on this 4 hour delicious culinary adventure with an experimental archaeologist- food historian, Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner. Get a glimpse of Chania gastronomy and society and satisfy your appetite for fascinating food history, food politics and culture with delectable tastings. Following the trails 'carved' by the Arabs, Jews, Venetians, Ottomans, Greeks from Asia Minor and other immigrants who have passed through Chania, adding their flavors to the local cuisine, you will experience a multisensory food event and delicacies from one-of-a-kind specialty food shops while enjoying the opportunity to understand better the culinary history of the city and how the locals eat.
Experience many different foods and a ligth meal, enough to fill your belly to the brim with all the amazing flavours that make up Cretan cuisine!
About Mariana
I am an experimental archaeologist-food historian, who recreates Greek historical recipes using ancient or modern techniques for spectacular food events.In 2000 I founded the 'Greek Culinary History & Cooking Adventures' to create interactive, edible experiences that bring historical Greek gastrono...
I am an experimental archaeologist-food historian, who recreates Greek historical recipes using ancient or modern techniques for spectacular food events.In 2000 I founded the 'Greek Culinary History & Cooking Adventures' to create interactive, edible experiences that bring historical Greek gastronomy to life through synesthesia (union of the senses) as well as explore the relationship between art and food.My work takes many forms, including pop-up dinners, experiments, lectures, historic cooking courses, edible installations, and food walking tours. On the walking tours, we do not only eat, we also explore the tales behind the foods and the preparation of each food item.I am the author of a Gourmand award-winning cookbook, The Language of Taste, which is a dictionary (in Gr.) of the history and culture of Greek food and the founder and organizer of the biennial Symposia of Greek Gastronomy (conference).You can also find me at www.historyofgreekfood.weebly.com and www.historyofgreekfood.eu.
Reviews
Wonderful experience with Mariana. Enjoyed her company, knowledge and selection of food in Chania. Went to places we would never have found on our own. Highly recommend you do this at the beginning of your visit to gain greater insight and a better understanding of Chania and Cretan culture and h...
Wonderful experience with Mariana. Enjoyed her company, knowledge and selection of food in Chania. Went to places we would never have found on our own. Highly recommend you do this at the beginning of your visit to gain greater insight and a better understanding of Chania and Cretan culture and history.
Brava Mariana!!
Rob Unger
Monika
Mariana's cooking lessons are extraordinary. We spent a few pleasurable hours learning about ancient Greek cooking and recreating astonishing historical dishes. An unforgettable experience!
The Sensing Crete food tour is not the typical experience! Mariana took us places I could not imagine finding my own. Amazing food and an ecstatic sensory approach to the culinary culture of Chania.