This year’s gastronomic quality awards were otherwise. It was part of a great celebration, the first flavor festival organized by the magazine Gastronomist And Kathimerini.
The public, after touring every corner of Greece through fine kitchens that tasted In the courtyard of Piraeus 260 And he learned gastronomic secrets through Greek cooking lessons, food and wine talks, took a position, alongside fine guests on stage D for the culmination of the night.
Already before 18:00, scene D began to fill with all those who gathered to applaud the people who honored the food for another year in every way. The first award of the night had an important symbolism.
This year’s honorary prize was given to Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou, A small, symbolic move for all that the “mother of the Mediterranean diet” has offered for decades and continues to offer in its scientific capacity. After all, he is the man who has revived the worldwide interest in the Mediterranean diet, highlighting its valuable benefits. “Fortune favored me to have some other major distinctions. But that matters to me because it comes from you. Not only from the Kathimerini and the Gastronomy, but from the world that follows and is trying to save our tradition, our principles. Greece has a future thanks to you »said Dr. Trichopoulou from the stage, receiving the award from K. Themistocles Alafuzo.
The copperworks of Kountourades presented the art of copperworks brought from Kozani before the public of the Gastronomist Festival. It is a copperwoman that counts two centuries of life and one of the last remaining in Greece, which passes tirelessly from generation to generation. Dimitris, Michalis and Markos Kountouras received the award from the head of “All Together We Can”, Giannis Spanolio and reminded that “We have to continue our work so that they don’t go all these years that have passed lost.” Undoubtedly, it was a giant meeting, a great celebration for Greek gastronomy.
This is the list of those honored at the quality awards
- Honorary Award: Act Antonia Trichopoulou
For its contribution to the worldwide revival of interest in Greek traditional diet and, by extension, the Mediterranean. The honorary prize is a small example of our gratitude for everything it has offered, but also for what it intends to offer in the future.
- Store Award: Alexandris Grocery
For their dedication, humanity and morality. Through an honest give and take, they bring man together with his place; the consumer with the producer; the taste with memory.
- Sustainability Award: Aegean ReBreath
For the unmistakable number of waste they have collected from the Greek seabed over the last eight years. With purely voluntary action, its members have set to clear ports and reefs in islands and coastal cities. Clean seabed means a healthy marine environment, sustainable fishing and safer food on our plate.
- Culture Award: Garlic “Entopio” – Platykambou Agricultural Cooperative
For the rescue and cultivation of an old variety of garlic, which is released on the market called Entopio. It stands out for its high content of polyphenols and other substances responsible for cell protection.
- “Evi Voutsina” Award: Darma Bakery
For the moving dedication with which they have been making the most famous Attica in the original recipe for 137 years and with excellent raw materials. Humility products, but with great gastronomic and cultural value, classic products, which prove that Greek tradition has nothing to envy from imported fashion.
- Cheese Product Prize: Zeus Caven Cheesecake – Xylouris
For dedication to the difficult and demanding art of aging cheese. Growing up in milk and cheese, Charalambos Xylouris in 2017 founded his productive unit, destined to cheer a Cretan PDO gruyere. With milk from old Cretan sheep breeding freely grazing in the meadows and aging 24 months, it creates a striking complexity and a cheese stingy.
- Olive Oil Prize: Elaikos Estate
For love, continuous education, respect for the knowledge of ancestors and fruitful partnerships that lead to the production of a right, true olive oil. The choice of practices of good and sustainable cultivation, the collection of healthy fruits early in October, the olive oil, careful storage, are some of the parameters of a true victory of the honest effort, knowledge and cooperation.
- Special Award: Costas Spiliadis
To a visionary who consistently and passionately served a goal: to show the foreigners Greece of simplicity, pure flavors, rare raw materials. The man who transformed Greek hospitality into worldwide experience and fastened Greek cuisine to the international map of Fine Dining.
- Honey Prize: Mouriki family
Because they serve with self -denial the difficult art of nomadic beekeeping. Panagiotis Mourikis, a second generation in the business, travels his bees in the four corners of the country. The family’s chestnut honey ended first and with a difference in this year’s blind tasting of the gastronomist. Their honey travel around the world, even reaching Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
- Traditional Art Award: Copper crafts Kountoura Bros.
To dedicate the family for almost two centuries to an old and difficult art. One of the last copperworks in Greece, passing from generation to generation, with the youngest having already taken a position.
- Greek Street Food Award: Souvlazidiko “Lefteris the Citizen”
Because for 74 years it has wrapped only five ingredients on a piece of paper, the taste of old Athens. One after the other, the generations of the Savvoglou family hold the ultimate recipe for a reference show.
- Athenian sweet Award: “The Stani” & Loukoumades of Chania T. Kistakis
For the century of life and besides, which, from the surroundings of Omonia, the two old hangouts rescued the lost tenderness of Athens and continue to the wounded historical memory. Two shops of the city’s sweetest moments.
- Wine Prize: Dark Estate
In one of the fronts in the new era of Greek wine, who did not inherit the wine but chose it. Winning the respect and confidence of his colleagues, he was elected three times the president of the Hellenic Wine Association. Creative, immovable, stubborn, George Skouras does not stop set goals.
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