We Are What We Eat: Crete | Nat Geo Live

(Part 6 of 7) The people living on the Greek island of Crete love their wine and eat a rich variety of foods drawn from their groves, farms, and the sea. Photographer Matthieu Paley captures the joyful people that have lived on the Mediterranean diet long before it became a fad.

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We Are What We Eat: Crete | Nat Geo Live

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[vimalalwaysrocks]

Nat geo photographers make our earth appear as heaven!!

[smalltiny]

The biggest dream I have is to live in Greece when I retire. It's an absolute heaven. I fell in love with it the first time I visited from France.

[funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*The Mediterranean diet is about 80% plants, * it's not about the olive oil, which is only 2 to 4 spoons per day.
The marketing of olive oil as the huge part of the Mediterranean oil is pure misleading for sales.

[ColKorn]

My girlfriend gained 10 lbs. on Crete because a Granny-lady at a local restaurant kept bringing her free food to try. Now my girlfriend looks like a pregnant pencil.

[sir]

As a Greek I get passed when I see what vegetarian culture is in West world they make veg burger veg steak....in greece we have many dishes that are only plant based big kitchen of original vegetarian food

[nviscalling]

My family is cretan and this is so accurate. I love going there. The food there is made by the land. I love it. The smell, the food, the people are amazing. And also, olive oil is the only oil hahahaha

[a.p.h.]

I spent 18 days in Crete. I visited my friend who is a Greek History teacher. What a great tour guide she was.

[BDCKavalaGroup]

I live in Greece and i didnt even know they have this kind of food in Crete, their food variability is very rich

[davidwilliams]

Went to Hania in Crete last year and loved it so much that we are returning same place in October this year.!! The Cretan food is wonderful, and their Terra Creta olive oil is the very best. My favourite meals were goat, lamb, and simple sardines, fried in olive oil, delish. I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms, and i cant wait to return. The Cretan honey and Yogurt is the best in the world, and you must try it. Met loads of Americans in Hania, and they were blown away with the beauty of everything.!! Also we loved the free Raki that they give you at the end of the meals, superb.!! If we could, we would upsticks and live our lives with the Cretans.!!!

[FusionTrendsz]

we have a lot in common with them here in Lebanon, we also pick various plants and make tons of different kinds of salads and vegetable food

[tasoskatsipis]

Που ειναι οι ελληνες στα comments ρε παιδια?

[jestione]

Always loved this way of life, eating as a way of connecting with everything around you, mainly people.
I'm a huge fan of this sight and it inspires me to really cook.
thanks

[midnightspunk]

I want to live like this, it looks so peaceful!

[alikool]

this is a treasure trove i have stumbled upon

[human-bing]

3:45 ..lol hit like those who saw that man's open zipper🤣🤣

[howudoin]

This guy is hot.

I Love Greeks, beautiful people. I'm in love with a Greek, Greek Australian actually but sadly this person doesn't know I exist! Boo hoo for me..
Greek food is goodness!!

[yaboifet]

Greek people have great culture. Like in every place the city people and the new generations are fixated to the common stuff brought about from globalization and the internet and lose this connection.
I come from a village in south Albania and now it is transformed into a tourist village. I remember as a child, eating fruit from my grandparens garden and then going in the beach and bathing, and after getting hungry i would eat a sort of scallop from the rocks. It is a small village and i was the youngest child of one of the biggest families lets say, so i knew everybody and i hanged out with first second third and even fourth cousins. Just a bunch of kids, eating and playing through the summer. And what amazing people the villagers are(at this point were), eventhough they live through property problems whithin families (because the parents die unexpectedly, or suffer mentally at an old age so they never really divide their heritage. Then some of the children emigrate so the ones who stay try to work the whole land and... You get it.. )Still, however the circumstances, the children are never brought into these problems and that is just great. I remember sleeping at my grandmothers sister house one night, and the other night i would head on the top of the mountain to sleep at my great grandfathers house, and then at my uncles.... Amazing but now ruined from the greedy politicians and businessmen (they have most of the money) building 14 floor buildings in a village where nothing exceeded the third floor. The sas thing is that these people also originate from that very village. And people bringing fancy boats and cars, in a place meant to be enjoyed in peace instead of pointless luxury. And then most of the people behave like animals, polluting the water and fishing excessively, even using dynamite. The ignorance and the greed that drove that paradise (in my eyes it beats every place on earth) into an ordinary place for tourists to crash and lay their waste has made me angry (they do not appreciate it, in their heads if they pay for something, they can trash it). I remember promising myself to work hard and make enough money to buy the beaches and support the villagers to live their life like they used to, but how realistic is that, old people die, and with them go their ways. The young that remain rather see themselves on the boats with the pretty yet shallow bimbos, rather than with their families. Destroying and selling heritage and land just to live two or three beautiful years and then seeking azil and cleaning bathrooms in foreign countries. Shameful, all i want is for the souls and memories of those great men and women to rest in peace. I kept working hard and i am successful now and keep growing day by day, but that place is hopeless. Thankfully my interests have shifted from my village and my memories, to my wife and my two sons, but the bad taste remains and i try to show them that every summer, eventhough bitter. They have to learn and be very hard on themselves as i was and my father before me and his father and so on, so eventhough our land is polluted and degeneraed, at least our history and our name stands proud.

[tylerdurden]

He says the snails are full of omga 3's and then he says there are no fats it it. What does he mean by this? 5:10

[______-hggy]

I'm eating a snickers bar while watching this 💪🏽🙃🇺🇸

[henrikkunchristensen]

Take down to sitia and enjoy. Every second. It's now. I have lived there for 7 years.and had been a guest for more than 30 years it's the best place on Crete. Greeting from Henrik. Dk