Delicacies & Wine tasting

This is a hands-on cooking experience using foraged wild herbs and spices. Maria, who has broad culinary knowledge, long experience, and a deep appreciation and respect for all kinds of Greek ingredients and plants, will guide you through the process, sharing cooking techniques, nutritional information, and her stories as you cook together. She shares her historical and scientific knowledge about herbs and spices, their use in herbal medicine and how to cook with them in unexpected combinations. You’ll prepare a unique, traditional Cycladic meal outside the mainstream of Greek food. Your meal highlights local cheese, vegetables, legumes, and grains. At the same time, you will experience how simple, quality ingredients cooked with love and care can nourish your body, mind and soul.

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Cold herbal tea as a welcome drink, water

• Parsley salad, local recipe of Syros
• A “one of a kind” salad with organic vegetables
• Lentils “giouvetsi” served with an aromatic yogurt sauce, adaptation of a Dodecanese recipe
• Foraged sea fennel salad with carrots and purslane
• “Strapatsada”,eggs in tomato sauce with wild local herbs and spices, adaptation of a recipe from Syros
• A variety of local cheese, “ louza” local cured meat, olives
• Desert served with “Psimeni raki” a white spirit recipe of Amorgos, coffee

Group: 2 – 8 people

Languages: English and Greek, in other languages on request with an additional fee

Drink: White / red wine, white spirit, herbal tea, coffee

Food: 6 vegetarian courses from the Aegean culinary tradition made of organic vegetables including dessert, a variety of local cheese, local cured meat

Price: From €95 per person

Duration: 4hours

Starts: 10:30 or 17:00

Location: Megas Gialos, Syros