Cooking in Ancient Greece

Crete, Greece

4 hours (approx.)
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Learn to cook like the ancient Greeks with this fun and enriching half-day lesson. Spend the afternoon in a 300-year-old olive grove outside Chania with an archaeologist, food historian, and award-winning cookbook author. After a tutorial on the food culture of Classical Greece, use forgotten spices and herbs to prepare ancient recipes like thrymatis—an unusual cake with a roasted bird inside—and enjoy the delicious food you’ve prepared.

Take a half-day lesson on the food culture and cuisine of Classical Greece
Enjoy instruction from an archaeologist, food historian, and cookbook author
Cook ancient recipes alongside your host using little-known ingredients
Relax in a beautiful olive grove and feast on the meal you’ve prepared

Sample Menu

Main

Bread baked in a replica of an ancient Greek portable oven and thrymatis

What's Included

Beverages
Bottled water
Food tasting
Small-group cooking class
Cooking lesson and lunch
All ingredients for your lesson and lunch
Recipes & photos will be sent via e-mail.
Lunch
Coffee and/or Tea

Hotel drop-off
Hotel pickup

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Konstantinoupoleos, Daratsos 731 00, Greece
Daratsos is 5,5 km from Chania. The place is between Konstantinoupoleos and Garofalaki str., but the entrance is on the left of Konstantinoupoleos. The front yard gate has a clay sun on it.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Operating hours
.10:00 am

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Service animals allowed