Cretan dairy and cheese products | Crete

Cretan diet lies at the centre of high-quality Mediterranean cuisine, recognized by the international scientific community as the most respective and qualitative example of the Mediterranean diet. In Greek antiquity, diet meant ‘a way of living’, specifically, "a way of living with good health, enjoyment and consideration for the natural world". The same society gave us the word gastronomy, "the art and knowledge involved in preparing and eating good food". Millennia later, these words acquire an extra value in Cretan tradition.