Kritisima: The other Crete

Patra Zeibeki was born in Athens by his father with roots from Samos and Asia Minor and mother from Crete. Places where there is a rich cuisine and great artistic activity itself from families where culinary artistry and flows in their blood because her father helped executive chef and mother of the Byzantine icon painter - a painter. She addresses the teenage years of the cooking and writing recipes and has a unique gift to be able to distinguish and identify different tastes and to compose. He is in adulthood with versions starting her career in the family business since her husband, the newspaper ＂H ALLAGI＂ in Crete, where among other journalist for a long time, permanent full-page column ＂MINI, MIDI, MAXI＂ the nickname ＂Bibi Ant.＂ pioneer column topics addressed exclusively to women. Later he worked in the European Union which had to remain for some time abroad, particularly in Dublin, Ireland, and in Thessaloniki. Continuing the process of publishing, creating the former wife of the magazine ＂STIGMES＂ as well as a Computer faculty seminars as well as a radio station ＂Radio City＂. All these years does not forget to travel around the world and experiencing different cuisines and dishes. Through her travels she discovers new flavours and new ingredients to incorporate in the diet and recipes by presenting a new and different style in the kitchen today. Artistic and restless spirit of the 2005 act is to learn the art of mosaic, so she went to neighbouring Italy and especially in Ravenna, where he studied at ＂Scuola Arte del Mosaico＂ mosaics and reproductions of ancient mosaics. She have taken several items from her travels and from the school that educated manufactures only custom mosaics works of incomparable beauty and inlaid furniture which are unique technique for Greece. The Christmas of 2008 creates the blog www.gourmetfoodlovers.blogspot.com presenting to the public internet special recipes. At the same time he wrote books of recipes which currently has the first edition of the book ＂Dishes and Flavours of the South＂ in two languages, Greek and English, Kritisima in Greek, English and Chinese and comes more. Samples of mosaic works, you can find on the site www.e-artists.gr. She is the owner of www.gourmetfoodlovers.eu and www.gourmetfoodlovers.gr which is under construction. Visit for more details www.gourmetfoodlovers.blogspot.com www.patrazeibeki.blogspot.com