Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries - Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries Announces Olive Harvest Tours

Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries organizes tours in Crete, Greece, that awning culture, nature, amoebic agronomics and cuisine. CCS now offers winter tours from November to January. “The olive autumn division is a admirable time of year to be in Crete,” said Nikki Rose, CCS founder. This cruise is for humans who ambition to see the absolute ancillary of Crete, participate in the agitative autumn activities and apprentice a lot about olive oil. Olives accept been able in Crete for over 4,000 years, so there’s a lot of arena to cover, including admired advantageous affable techniques.

September 10, 2005 -- CCS programs are tailored to baby groups and presented alone by citizen experts. Crete’s acclaimed advantageous cuisine and amoebic gardening, including the assembly of olive oil, cheese and wine are intertwined with visits to celebrated sites and blooming hikes. Optional alfresco activities can aswell be enjoyed – from cycling alternating the country anchorage to paragliding over the valley. “Our visiting accompany accompany us in villages they may never acquisition on their own and get to apperceive association who are captivated to allotment their ability about ability and cuisine,” said Rose. By architecture a arrangement of ancestors farms and baby businesses, CCS created the backbone in numbers humans charge to allotment their ability and abide their plan in dematerialization acceptable trades.

Crete has a alluring past, but that’s just one allotment of the account today. “Any abode we visit, whether it be New York or Nepal, is added memorable if we absorb time with bounded people. That’s the affiliation we accomplish in Crete, while administration admired cultural, comestible and agronomical advice with our visiting friends,” said Rose. Agriculture and ability are acerb affiliated in Crete, as you’ll anon discover!

Nikki Rose is a Greek-American, able chef and biographer (primarily for Slow Food), active in Crete. Her online autograph focus on culture, food, agriculture and ecology issues. She is aswell alive on a book and documentary that mirrors CCS programs. Rose has advised cultural-culinary canning seminars back 1997, featuring arresting chefs from the adept sector, comestible schools and accomplished dining establishments from about the world. 15 associates of the CCS arrangement are featured in Television New Zealand’s “Taste Takes Off” comestible biking show, to be aired in November.

Kostas Bouyouris, co-designer of the CCS project, is a acclaimed agriculturalist and founding affiliate of the Mediterranean Association for Soil Health, based in Crete. Bouyouris has formed for over a decade on avant-garde projects to aggrandize acceptable amoebic agronomics in Greece. His programs hotlink amoebic farmers anon to restaurant kitchens and actualize an capital arch amid agronomics and tourism. MedASH organizes abounding association projects, including training adolescent farmers and acclimation children’s gardens. Bouyouris was a bedfellow apostle at Slow Food’s Terra Madre appointment in October 2004.

CCS programs accept been featured in National Geographic Adventure, Islands Magazine, Lonely Planet, The Guardian (UK), Slow Food, and Greek Circle Magazine, a allotment of others. Their programs are certified by above attention and acceptable biking (ecotourism) organizations and accustomed by the American Culinary Federation for continuing apprenticeship credits.


Contact:

Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries
Elounda Post Office Box 138
Elounda, Crete, Greece
T.K. 72053
Phone: (30) 28410-42797

Web site: www.cookingincrete.com


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