About The Event
Culinary Crete provides participants with opportunities for hands-on, inspirational culinary activity while moving at a vacation-friendly pace. Daily cooking classes, discussions, activities and excursions will be interspersed with plenty of free time to enjoy the sublime landscape and luxurious accommodations at Dalabelos Estate.
The schedule for individual participants will depend on arrival and departure date & time. All participants will begin with an orientation, discussion of terroir and the Cretan diet, and an estate farm tour.
In the evening, enjoy concerts of traditional Cretan music and other cultural exhibitions and activities.
We promise a relaxing, decidedly delicious immersion in traditional Cretan cuisine, music, and culture.
Christopher Bakken
With almost thirty years of experience cooking, writing, and traveling in Greece, Program Director Christopher Bakken supplements his skills as a chef with deep knowledge of literature, gastronomy, history, and Greek culture. He is the author of the culinary memoir, Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table, as well as three books of poetry. His work has appeared widely in publication in the U.S. and Europe. Christopher earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Houston, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bucharest and is Frederick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College. Christopher won Food & Wine Magazine’s Best Burger Contest in 2005 and he has cooked live on the CBS Saturday Morning Early Show.
Christopher Bakken
With almost thirty years of experience cooking, writing, and traveling in Greece, Program Director Christopher Bakken supplements his skills as a chef with deep knowledge of literature, gastronomy, history, and Greek culture. He is the author of the culinary memoir, Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table, as well as three books of poetry. His work has appeared widely in publication in the U.S. and Europe. Christopher earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Houston, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bucharest and is Frederick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College. Christopher won Food & Wine Magazine’s Best Burger Contest in 2005 and he has cooked live on the CBS Saturday Morning Early Show.
Christopher Bakken
With almost thirty years of experience cooking, writing, and traveling in Greece, Program Director Christopher Bakken supplements his skills as a chef with deep knowledge of literature, gastronomy, history, and Greek culture. He is the author of the culinary memoir, Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table, as well as three books of poetry. His work has appeared widely in publication in the U.S. and Europe. Christopher earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Houston, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bucharest and is Frederick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College. Christopher won Food & Wine Magazine’s Best Burger Contest in 2005 and he has cooked live on the CBS Saturday Morning Early Show.