Greek Islands
Supposedly Greece has the world's healthiest diet. From Crete to Ithaca, Tony heads off on a culinary odyssey to find out if that reputation is deserved.
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Alitzarini Restaurant
Tony visits Zakynthos' medieval settlement of Koilomenos. Here he eats lamb spleen stuffed with local cheese and flavored with cinnamon and clove. Also the signature dish of rabbit braised in onions, spices and wine.
Koilomenos, Zakynthos Greece
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Neoria Seaside Taverna
Tony joins a local fisherman at Neoria Seaside Taverna for a special meal. Offerings include sea urchin roe with bread and olive oil. Grilled octopus, fried cuttlefish, and sheep milk cheese on tomato puree and barley rusk.
¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, Chania 73100, ¿¿¿¿¿, Greece
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Bougatsa Hanion
Tony visits a small shop for a Hanian delicacy, bougatsa. Bougatsa is a sweet cheese and phylo pie. Here the same baker has hand made the gossamer thin phylo from scratch for 20 years.
¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 35, Chania 73100, ¿¿¿¿¿, Greece
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Pantheon Restaurant (in Iraklia Market)
Tony and food writer Byron Ayanoglu visit the local market to explore the Greek diet. At Pantheon, they enjoy a meal of Greek specialties including tripe soup, the ubiquitous greens, lamb sweet breads, stewed wild goat and chickpeas.
2 Theodosaki Dirty Alley, Iraklion, Crete, Greece
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