the Mediterranean diet is the oldest
diet that is still practiced today you
don’t see people going around saying hey
you need to eat like the in which it’s
really good you have people that because
it’s something you can still practice
nowadays it’s very ancient and so I went
to Crete and I did not go to one
specific area I went all around Crete
but I ended up spending quite a lot of
time in central Crete weather was pretty
is written there’s about six hundred
thousand people living in Crete this is
breakfast the first day and people adapt
to anything all these areas are visited
traditionally they eat only traditional
food they’re all fit as hell I was lucky
I was there exactly a year ago and he
was time of Horta Horta means herbs mid
wild herbs and so I see this old woman
on the second third day walking around
you know and I follow her and she’s got
this super sharp knife like whoa easy
and what is he doing she just laid down
under the olive tree and she started to
gather all these various wild chicory
wild phenols all is just goodness it’s
just it was very beautiful scene and so
I followed her you know she didn’t have
enough space into an apron so she
started to take off her stuff and roll
all the white herbes in it it was a very
beautiful moment
vangelia her name is 80
something-year-old woman and then she
goes back and her daughter’s is there
and they start to go through all the
hortas you know clean them separate the
different kind any average Cretan woman
would give you about 20-25 names of wild
herbs and go in the field and find them
and be able to know that this still part
of their knowledge I was really blown
away by this and then they mix it with
eggs they make this dolma with stuffed
grape leaves and then they pulled out
this dish geranium leaves fried in olive
oil even the French fries are always
fried in olive oil there is no other oil
than olive this is tuna plant I was told
it’s beetroot it tastes like Earth
beautiful with oranges they mix that
driving around Crete we pass vineyard
wine comes around four or five thousand
years ago from that part of the world as
olive groves
olive oil is like you know the
quintessential stuff you think of when
you think of Mediterranean diet and
people in April are trimming the olive
trees to boost productivity when it
comes you know around September into
October when they harvest olives and we
pass this man who is you know trimming
and you can see between the olive trees
they till the soil and they’re going to
grow fava beans fava beans has a lot of
nitrogen nitrogen fixer and it will help
you know the soil to be so it’s
permaculture but to you know very old
ways of permaculture the harvest parsley
which is a very ancient plant from that
part of the world too they practice
polyculture there’s not going to be
massive monoculture it’s always mixed
around them it helps because you don’t
need to use much fertilizer when you do
that and I meet a lot of people that are
self-sufficient like this guy Nicholas
who was living off his vegetable garden
more or less we stopped in cafe neon
they are the coffee places coffee shops
this is Orthodox priest and you know
he’s just having you know his breakfast
these are peanuts they roll a lot of
cigarettes this crisis they don’t buy
cigarettes they roll all the cigarettes
oranges a little glass of grappa 10
o’clock in the morning it’s okay don’t
worry about it they live happy these
people are I mean in Crete what I
experienced was a very happy bunch and
we drive around these guys you know in
the field is afraid you know I stop get
out you know I get fed by very healthy
looking man it’s cool I’m always game
for that I love it
I love to be fed anything and we ended
up in central Crete in this village
called narrowness and you head out to
the church and this is grandma oh yeah
what’d you say you know show me the way
to the stomach to the food I need to see
stuff you know food food food okay go
over there
this guy’s like are you taking a picture
no he’s doing video I don’t know you
know this is Saturday afternoon at the
mosque owners in this little village and
they just eat man is wine everywhere I’m
drinking and they’re coming back from
the field people are going there’s so
much noise could be neatly you know in
my mind I was like oh my god the noise
level in here and so they are having
chicken from the farm they’re having
lots of snails all the time all year
round they have wild asparagus
they have fava beans sardines you know
wine wine wine they eat a lot of snail
there all the time and when you think
about it when you think about the
evolution of food seashells
snails you don’t need much hunting
skills you don’t even need bow and arrow
you just walk there lead them so when
you think about some of the oldest food
we have we must have been eaten I’m
thinking it’s there it’s full of omega-3
there’s no fat in it it’s super good for
you so very joyous atmosphere very nice
and the wine spills over great
you know Crete I love you
diet that is still practiced today you
don’t see people going around saying hey
you need to eat like the in which it’s
really good you have people that because
it’s something you can still practice
nowadays it’s very ancient and so I went
to Crete and I did not go to one
specific area I went all around Crete
but I ended up spending quite a lot of
time in central Crete weather was pretty
is written there’s about six hundred
thousand people living in Crete this is
breakfast the first day and people adapt
to anything all these areas are visited
traditionally they eat only traditional
food they’re all fit as hell I was lucky
I was there exactly a year ago and he
was time of Horta Horta means herbs mid
wild herbs and so I see this old woman
on the second third day walking around
you know and I follow her and she’s got
this super sharp knife like whoa easy
and what is he doing she just laid down
under the olive tree and she started to
gather all these various wild chicory
wild phenols all is just goodness it’s
just it was very beautiful scene and so
I followed her you know she didn’t have
enough space into an apron so she
started to take off her stuff and roll
all the white herbes in it it was a very
beautiful moment
vangelia her name is 80
something-year-old woman and then she
goes back and her daughter’s is there
and they start to go through all the
hortas you know clean them separate the
different kind any average Cretan woman
would give you about 20-25 names of wild
herbs and go in the field and find them
and be able to know that this still part
of their knowledge I was really blown
away by this and then they mix it with
eggs they make this dolma with stuffed
grape leaves and then they pulled out
this dish geranium leaves fried in olive
oil even the French fries are always
fried in olive oil there is no other oil
than olive this is tuna plant I was told
it’s beetroot it tastes like Earth
beautiful with oranges they mix that
driving around Crete we pass vineyard
wine comes around four or five thousand
years ago from that part of the world as
olive groves
olive oil is like you know the
quintessential stuff you think of when
you think of Mediterranean diet and
people in April are trimming the olive
trees to boost productivity when it
comes you know around September into
October when they harvest olives and we
pass this man who is you know trimming
and you can see between the olive trees
they till the soil and they’re going to
grow fava beans fava beans has a lot of
nitrogen nitrogen fixer and it will help
you know the soil to be so it’s
permaculture but to you know very old
ways of permaculture the harvest parsley
which is a very ancient plant from that
part of the world too they practice
polyculture there’s not going to be
massive monoculture it’s always mixed
around them it helps because you don’t
need to use much fertilizer when you do
that and I meet a lot of people that are
self-sufficient like this guy Nicholas
who was living off his vegetable garden
more or less we stopped in cafe neon
they are the coffee places coffee shops
this is Orthodox priest and you know
he’s just having you know his breakfast
these are peanuts they roll a lot of
cigarettes this crisis they don’t buy
cigarettes they roll all the cigarettes
oranges a little glass of grappa 10
o’clock in the morning it’s okay don’t
worry about it they live happy these
people are I mean in Crete what I
experienced was a very happy bunch and
we drive around these guys you know in
the field is afraid you know I stop get
out you know I get fed by very healthy
looking man it’s cool I’m always game
for that I love it
I love to be fed anything and we ended
up in central Crete in this village
called narrowness and you head out to
the church and this is grandma oh yeah
what’d you say you know show me the way
to the stomach to the food I need to see
stuff you know food food food okay go
over there
this guy’s like are you taking a picture
no he’s doing video I don’t know you
know this is Saturday afternoon at the
mosque owners in this little village and
they just eat man is wine everywhere I’m
drinking and they’re coming back from
the field people are going there’s so
much noise could be neatly you know in
my mind I was like oh my god the noise
level in here and so they are having
chicken from the farm they’re having
lots of snails all the time all year
round they have wild asparagus
they have fava beans sardines you know
wine wine wine they eat a lot of snail
there all the time and when you think
about it when you think about the
evolution of food seashells
snails you don’t need much hunting
skills you don’t even need bow and arrow
you just walk there lead them so when
you think about some of the oldest food
we have we must have been eaten I’m
thinking it’s there it’s full of omega-3
there’s no fat in it it’s super good for
you so very joyous atmosphere very nice
and the wine spills over great
you know Crete I love you
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