
Cooking demonstration aboard the Celestyal Cruises Ships
In 2015, I gave two cooking demonstrations of four dishes from the Aegean aboard the Celestyal Olympia and the Celestyal Odyssey, two of the ships of Celestyal Cruises, at the invitation of Mr. George Kalostos. The dishes included buleri eggs, vourliotiki salad, delagraciano eggplants, and cheese pie with honey. All were inspired by traditional recipes except for the sweet, which is a recipe by Antonia Chalavazi from Syros. By organizing these presentations aboard the ships of Celestyal Cruises, Georges offers passengers the opportunity to experience the culinary tradition of the Aegean, tasting various and intriguing dishes and local products they wouldn’t have the chance to taste otherwise.
There was a lot of interest and participation, and I thank George for giving me the opportunity to become an ambassador of our culinary tradition to so many people of different nationalities and share with them my knowledge, flavors, and fragrances from Greece. I admit that the wild herbs that I gathered from Syros were the protagonists of the show. Their aromas and tastes were unprecedented for them.
Thyme, sage, and wild fennel took the audience to the island, livening up the demonstration and the dishes.