TASTE ZAKYNTHOS – Zakynthos highlighted its gastronomic and nutritional wealth

TASTE ZAKYNTHOS – Zakynthos highlighted its gastronomic and nutritional wealth
The two-day TASTE ZAKYNTHOS – From Tradition to Experience, which took spot connected 27–28 September 2025, organized by the Zakynthos Cooperation Network, was completed with large success. The enactment was implemented wrong the model of the Interregional Cooperation Plan “Flavours of Greeks Selected II: Greek Gastronomic Culture”, which aims to item Greek gastronomic civilization and its transportation with tourism and culture.

For 2 days, Zakynthos was astatine the halfway of attention, highlighting some the gastronomic imaginable of its accepted recipes and the nutritional worth of the island’s diagnostic products – raisins, wine, olive oil, ladotyri, mandolato.

At the Zakynthos Cultural Center, nether the auspices of the Municipality of Zakynthos, a thematic league was held with presentations by scientists, chefs and professionals, portion the lawsuit opened with greetings from the Member of Parliament of Zakynthos, Mr. Dionysios Aktypis, the Mayor of Zakynthos, Mr. Giorgos Stasinopoulos, the Deputy Governor of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Mr. Konstantinos Tsirigotis and the President of the Zakynthos Agricultural Cooperative Union, Mr. Dionysios Vertzagias, officially marking the commencement of the two-day event. The three-part programme continued with delicious nutrient and vino pairings, arsenic good arsenic visits to accumulation units and wineries, giving the accidental to get to cognize the products and practices that signifier section gastronomy up close.

A cardinal constituent of the enactment was the collaboration on the full worth chain: from the superior assemblage and producers, to processing and tourism operators – hoteliers, restaurateurs and chefs. Through this connection, Zakynthos products tin beryllium systematically integrated into hospitality and catering businesses, truthful that not lone visitors but besides young radical cognize them, cultivating familiarity with section production.

In this way, the section system and gastronomic tourism are strengthened, portion astatine the aforesaid clip networks and communities are created that lend to the continuation and extortion of accumulation and contented – individuality of the place.

The president of the Zakynthos Cooperation Network, Mr. Nikos Tsipiras, stated, “We organized a broad enactment to item recipes and products, proposing collaborations betwixt businesses, producers, and chefs to integrate section cuisine into tourism.”

The Mayor of Zakynthos stated, "Zakynthos' gastronomy is our strategical advantage. With initiatives specified arsenic TASTE ZAKYNTHOS, we bring producers, processing and tourism person unneurotic — with the purpose of keeping accumulation live and integrating section products into the regular acquisition of visitors."

The occurrence of the lawsuit near a beardown mark: it created caller channels of cooperation, showed applicable ways to integrate Zakynthian products into the tourer acquisition and laid the foundations for a aboriginal wherever section accumulation and gastronomic contented are the instauration of the island's improvement identity.

About the "Tastes of Greeks Selected II" Project

The Project includes associated and section actions passim the country, specified arsenic acquisition and cognition transfer, sensation pairings, section networking and the instauration of gastronomic communities, promotion and festivals, arsenic good arsenic the improvement of integer infrastructure. The purpose is to to fortify the presumption of good Greek products successful catering and tourism, to beforehand our gastronomic practice and to guarantee its sustainability successful the future.

The Conference was coordinated by the Network enforcement Mr. Fotios Kottis, liable for inter-local & transnational programs.