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Heraklion, Greece
6 dishes to eat in Heraklion, what is in them, and where they belong.
Barley rusk soaked in tomato and oil, with mizithra cheese and oregano.
Small pastries filled with soft cheese or wild greens, sweet or savoury.
Lamb cooked upright around an open fire, a shepherd's method.
Wedding rice cooked in meat stock and finished with staka butter — very rich, very local.
A thin cheese pie fried and drizzled with honey.
Graviera, mizithra and anthotyros, made from sheep and goat milk.
