Isabella Zampetaki
Isabella embarked on a two-year voyage with the aim to find real food up in Crete’s mountains, in shepherds’ huts and faraway hamlets. But she discovered something greater.
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Isabella Zampetaki's 2024 biography
Meet Isabella Zampetaki
When Isabella went on an expedition with the aim to find non-commercial food made by small, sustainable producers on the Greek island of Crete, she discovered something greater than unadulterated products: the forgotten life philosophy that surrounds them. She believes that the lessons she was taught by the laborers of the earth hold a great part of the meaning that most of us urban digital workers strive to find. And she shares it generously through her speaking and food storytelling sessions and grows her own vegetables in her 20 square meter plot in Athens.
Isabella speaks at conferences and other events about culinary culture, travel, sustainability and wellbeing in a digital world. She also hosts a food storytelling experience where participants get the chance to try some of the artisanal products she discovered through her research.
Magazines her work has been published in include Time Out Athens, Travel & Leisure Mexico, Oryx – Qatar Airways, Aire – Aeromexico, Athens Voice, Kathimerini and Athens Insider. Her first book, “Handcrafted Crete” is a bilingual travel volume for all things made by hand in the island.
Isabella is the creator of Tourism Awards, the most well-respected awards for the Greek travel sector, as well as of the Greek Hotel of the Year Awards. In 2023, she founded Herbs in Her Pockets, a company that specializes in storytelling and concept design services for the travel sector.
She has a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College, Iowa and a Masters in Design of Information and Communication Technologies from Carlos III University in Spain.
Isabella Zampetaki's 2024 talks & topics
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 -and life.
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.
Longevity Island: Create Your Own Blue Zone
Isabella has travelled to Ikaria, Crete and Corfu –three places in Greece remarkable in terms of the longevity of their inhabitants – and has interviewed renowned researchers on the topic. Combining the scientists’ views with centuries-old daily habits of ordinary people, she proposes small changes you can make to create your own personal Blue Zone, regardless of where you live. This talk goes far beyond dietary advice, diving into the less visible factors that affect our life expectancy and quality of life.
Isabella Zampetaki's 2024 speaking fees
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