Market tour and cooking lesson with Christina

Christina will take you on a short walking tour of some of her favorite neighborhood shops. You'll visit the local cheesemonger to see freshly made cheeses, a deli that specializes in olive oil, dried spices, and other traditional products, and her neighborhood bakery. As you explore the shops Christina will teach you about the where the products are made and the history behind them. After your shopping is complete you will walk to Christina's kitchen to begin cooking together.

Please note that Christina's neighborhood is hilly so you should come prepared with good walking shoes. Your walking tour will last about an hour.

You will learn to prepare authentic Greek phyllo dough from scratch in Christina's kitchen. She will teach you to make the ubiquitous flaky Greek dough - starting with flour and water - and together you will prepare a traditional pie. She will teach you, step by step, how to make the pie filling using seasonal ingredients like wild spinach and other greens and a variety of fresh cheeses (you might mix the filling in the sink since it is her biggest receptacle!). You mix the dough, learn to roll it into paper-thin sheets on her dining table, and layer the pie with the filling. She will show you how to carefully lay the delicate sheets of phyllo in the pan, which results in a light, crispy pie. Share the spinach pie you helped prepare along with other dishes such as pistachio-crusted chicken served with a savory molasses sauce, seasonal salads of anthotyro (fresh cheese), cherry tomatoes and toasted bread or wild greens collected in the countryside, small fish marinated with fresh herbs, olive-crusted lamb with yogurt sauce, or strapatsada (scrambled eggs with feta and tomatoes). Christina will share printed recipes with you so you can recreate the dishes at home.