Aegean Airlines New 'Gastronomics' Initiative Showcases Greek Flavors

TripAdvisor recently named Aegean Airlines 'Best Airline in Europe for 2018,' but it's their new 'Gastronomics' initiative that caught the eye of popular news source, Forbes. 

As part of the new initiative, the airline's wine consultant, Konstantinos Lazarakis, is teaming up with three notable Greek chefs, Lefteris Lazarou, Christoforos Peskias, and Stelios Parliaros, to create more than 40 dishes showcasing local flavors from Crete, Naxos, the Peloponnese, and more.

While Aegean Airlines have offered Greek flavors in-flight for years (since 2010, more than 450,000 bottles of wine from 85 Greek wineries and various local products from 50 Greek producers have been offered), it's the addition of the renowned chefs that will give Aegean some "serious Hellenic gastronomic muscle."

As Forbes states, "Lazarou was awarded a Michelin star for his gourmet restaurant Varoulko Seaside in Piraeus. Parliaros is Greece's leading pastry chef. Stepping into his Sweet Alchemy establishment in the Kolonaki neighborhood of Athens is a feast for the senses. Cypriot-born Peskias trained under Ferran Adrià and Mark Menaux. Lazarakis, for whom 'Greek wines, for at least a decade, are among the best of the planet' curates the onboard wine list."

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