FOOD
FOOD
There’s nothing comparable like tasting a wine flavored dried octopus accompanied with some milky cold tsipouro feeling the sea breeze on your face in a hot day of summer.
Sarti is a place of heaven as far as it concerns food choices, Mediterranean, Italian, Turkish, Balkanian and most importantly Athonian influences are everywhere and you can take a bite to Greek food tradition by just choosing among countless dishes.
Sarti is literally a unique gastronomy destination.
So get your palate ready to discover the place, the products, the people, the tradition, the history, the tastes, the recipes and the local cuisine.
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While in Sarti, you will find yourself among all the fresh ingredients, organic olive oil and honey, fresh fish and sea food, local meat and cheeses and everything Greek cuisine includes.
You can buy all these things from local shops and cook them yourself, or you can try them in restaurants and taverns cooked by the best in a traditional or contemporary way.
Μany of Sarti’s residents, such as others in the nearby villages, are fishermen, breeders, milk, cheese, vegetables and fruits producers as well as honey and olive oil makers.
Sithonia has also got a lot of winemakers that cultivate different kinds of grapes to produce famous Greek spirits like tsipouro, ouzo, retsina and plenty of other wines.
What is the sweetest thing you can think of about Sarti? Honey of course.
Either if you have it on a slice of bread, or with your Greek yogurt at your hotel’s breakfast or late in the evening after your afternoon walk on some golden fried and fluffy traditional loukoumades (donut-like traditional greek sweet), be sure that you will be impressed by the flavor of Sithonia’s honey.
Did you know that Halkidiki and especially Sithonia is the bee-keeping capital of Greece with over 6,500 beekeepers producing 1,900 tons of honey each year? Apart from the sweet honeyed variety of dishes that you can taste in Sarti, you can also find producers who sale honey in Sarti and you can buy some for you,family and friends.
An incredibly special and sweet gift, don’t you agree?
Honeybees transform nectar into honey by a process of regurgitation and store it as a primary food source in wax honeycombs inside the beehive.
Honey gets its sweetness from the monosaccharide fructose and glucose and has approximately the same relative sweetness as that of granulated sugar.
Flavors of honey vary based on the nectar source. It is also used in various medicinal traditions to treat ailments.
Honey is produced by bees as a food source, By contriving for bee swarms to nest in artificial hives, people have been able to semi domesticate the insects, and harvest excess honey.
In the hive, there are three types of bee in a hive: a single female queen bee, a seasonally variable number of male drone bees to fertilize new queens, and some 20,000 to 40,000 female worker bees.
The worker bees collect the nectar that will turn to honey in the hive.
Leaving the hive, they collect sugar-rich flower nectar and return.
Ripe honey, as removed from the hive by a beekeeper, has a long shelf life, and will not ferment if properly sealed.
Honey is collected from domesticated beehives.
Collecting honey is typically achieved by using smoke to pacify the bees; this makes them far less aggressive.
The honeycomb is removed from the hive and the honey is extracted from that.
The honey is then filtered.
History
A place that combines mythology and history, Sarti has a reach past full of facts and stories like the rest of Greece.
Music
By the first minutes in Sarti and in Greece in general, you will find out that Greek life is bound with music.
