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a quarter of the portion and crumble
it over the salad. Dessert is also
part of spa cuisine. A pear poached
in some Mavrodaphne wine or a
fruit salad with a little sweet
Samos Muscat wine are both great
ends to a healthful meal. An other
option, says Ayoob, “ is some of the
low-fat strained Greek yogurt and
spoon sweets. The idea here is that
they are 'spoon' sweets not 'scoop'
sweets. That means that you have
a small spoon of your favorite one
and not the whole jar with your
yogurt.”
On the island of Crete, the Six
Senses Spa offers another succulent
experience. Situated within
the Elounda De Luxe Resort, the
breathtaking spa provides an unrivalled
range of signature treatments
and treats that focus on
health, beauty, stress reduction,
and rejuvenation using pure and
natural products.
Most importantly, Elounda chefs
and managers say the menu's
emphasis is on the region's most
prided products: fish and seafood.
“For us,” says Jean Metayer, the
French-born chief chef of the
resort, “the emphasis was working
with Greek products not Greek cuisine
per se to produce the basis of
a healthy spa cuisine menu.”
Calorie counts and diet thinking
were “taken least into consideration”
says Metayer who crafted the
menu three years ago with Jacque
Le Divellec, star chef and owner of
Frances' Michelin 2-star Le Sea
Grill.
The result? A lavish Spa Cuisine
menu available to every customer,
Anthee Carassava is the Athens correspondent for Time magazine.
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not just to the resort's spa-goers.
Starters include a string of light
entrees ranging from lobster
carpaccio and lemon-olive oil vinaigrette
to octopus salad with local
Cretan pligouri (cracked wheat).
The sea bass tartar with light
lemon mousse tops the menu's
main course meal, together with
crayfish and aubergine caviar, and
sole filets with Greek yogurt-herb
pesto. The menu is a star attraction
for most visitors who take to
Elounda for a deluxe vacation.
Greeks have always known that
their native cuisine and sun-andsea-drenched
raw ingredients provide
the basis for one of the world's
healthiest diets; it makes perfect
sense that these timeless traditions
marry perfectly with contemporary
spa trends.