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Isabella Zampetaki

Food&Travel Writer
Freelancer
Country or state 
Greece
Available to 
Global
City 
Athens
Fee 
Languages 
English,
Greek,
...
Volunteer
Yes
Timezone 
Europe/Athens

Personal Details

Bio

Isabella Zampetaki is a food & travel writer, storyteller and author based in Athens, Greece. She has two sons and 20 square meters of urban land she cultivates, planting on it twice a year in accordance with sustainable farming practices.

Her first book, “Handcrafted Crete”, is a bilingual travel volume exploring all things made by hand on the island and revealing the true essence of the Mediterranean lifestyle. In its pages, we discover a multifaceted variety of age-old crafts from across the plains and mountains of Crete: from textiles, ceramics and knife-making to cheesemaking and the production of olive oil and carob food items. We travel to wineries that produce wine in clay amphorae and to shepherds’ huts where they still make cheese as their grandparents did, in century-old copper cauldrons.

Isabella speaks at conferences and other events about food culture, the Mediterranean diet & lifestyle, travel, sustainability, and wellbeing in a digital world.

She is the creator of the Greek Tourism Awards and the Greek Hotel of the Year Awards.

Isabella was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and started writing about culture, food and travel in 2000. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College, Iowa, in the USA and a Masters in Design of Information and Communication Technologies from Carlos III University in Spain.

Current position (1)

Food&Travel Writer

Freelancer

Degrees (1)
Bachelor of Arts
Grinnell College
1995 to 1999

Presentations

Presentations (2)
How far would you go for real food?

Isabella has traveled Crete’s mountains and plains in search of unique culinary experiences. She’s visited ancient Tsounati olive groves where the world’s first high phenolic olive oil to be globally certified as a food supplement is being produced. She’s watched men whip wild rock-rose bushes as they collect labdanum, and she’s discovered its healing secrets. She spent a night in a cave in the Samaria Gorge to witness a unique honey harvest and she has sat in a shepherd’s hut in the White Mountains all through the long hours of stirring it takes to make graviera cheese. In the course of these culinary journeys, she has made some unexpected discoveries and would love to share some of her most important finds, inviting you to redefine the way you look at food.

The art of being human in a digital world

What does an 18th-century loom have to do with digital wellbeing? Why is a high phenolic extra virgin olive oil better for our mood than Instagram? Why would a group of volunteers hike for 5 hours and spend a night in a cave inside a gorge – with no phone coverage at all – in order to help out a friend with his honey harvest? Working in front of screens, we often forget we have a real presence in the physical world. A journey through Crete’s interior, where many people continue to embrace a very analogue daily routine, helps find the key habits we can all adopt in order to be healthier, happier and more satisfied with our digital-vs-physical life balance.

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Speaking – HERBS IN HER POCKETS

Expertise (5)

Health & Well-being
Travel & Adventure
Sport & Hobbies
Culinary Culture Sustainability
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Why choose me? 

Serene yet powerful, I weave tales that transcend words and take you on a voyage you will remember.

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