Description
Join celebrated Greek chef and author Carolina Doriti for a sun-soaked culinary journey through the Aegean. In this intensive hands-on cooking class, Carolina guides you through some of her favourite recipes from her acclaimed cookbook The Greek Islands — a love letter to the flavours, traditions, and stories of Greece’s most captivating isles.
Through seasonal ingredients, heartfelt storytelling, and hands-on techniques, you’ll discover what makes island cooking both timeless and deeply personal — from delicate seafood dishes and rustic vegetable plates to bright herbs and citrus notes that define Greek coastal cuisine.
Perfect for home cooks, Mediterranean food lovers, or anyone dreaming of a seaside taverna.
You’ll cook:
1. Tourtes (cheese and mint pasties)
2. Lachanodolmades (Stuffed vine leaf dolmades with avgolemono, an egg and lemon sauce)
4. Patsavouropita (Orange filo pie with syrup)
There will be an opportunity to purchase ‘The Greek Islands’ on the day or have your existing copy signed.
What’s included:
- Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
- Apron and all of the equipment required
- A recipe pack for you to take home after your class
- All ingredients provided and weighed out in advance for you
- Lunch of your own making to enjoy together as a class accompanied by a glass of wine or soft refreshments
- 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items
- We do all the washing up!
Carolina Doriti
Carolina Doriti was born in Αthens and studied in the UK. Her mother was a food writer and author and Carolina grew up fascinated with ingredients, developing her own recipes from a young age. In 2013, she started designing and leading gastronomical tours around Greece for one of the world’s leading food tour companies.
Carolina writes about food with a special focus on the history of Greek gastronomy, the ingredients, regional cuisines, and lost recipes. She is the Culinary Producer of My Greek Table, a TV series on Greek gastronomy broadcast on PBS across the US and Canada and on Amazon Prime. She has appeared on various cooking and other food-related shows in Greece and abroad and writes on the subject for many international publications. Salt of the Earth: secrets and stories from a Greek kitchen was her first cookbook.