Crete has been a food destination a long time in the making. Greece’s biggest island is dotted with centuries-old olive trees (including the oldest olive tree in the world still producing fruit ...

But the Cretian love affair with the olive goes far beyond one tree. While you can obviously eat olives as they are - after a brining process, at least - Crete's real claim to fame is its olive oil.

Olive oil and lemons are Mediterranean-diet staples that I like to embrace. The Mediterranean diet is suspected to have started in Crete ... I have a lemon tree growing at the bottom of my ...