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Traditional cuisine

  The visitor can taste in the taverns of the area the great variety of flavour of the traditional cooking of Crete. The wide range of vegetables and greenstuffs (stamnagathi, avronies, radikia, glistrida askorthilakous, askolimbrous, bulbs). Delicacies such as omathies, apakia, siglina, garthoumia, the cretan rice, kaltsounia, spinach-pie, Sfakian-pie). During your stay you will encounter first-handed the hospitality of the simple people of the countryside. Here everybody continues in many ways to live with the old ways and customs, with the habits and beliefs of the older generations.
This text (extract) is cited February 2004 from the Municipality of Lappes tourist pamphlet.