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The Cuisine of Longevity

Name: The Cuisine of Longevity
Brand: George & Eleni Karimalis
Price: 175.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with George & Eleni Karimalis

£175

Saturday 28th
November 2026

14:30-18:30
(4hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Join us for this hands-on cooking workshops with Blue Zone teachers from Ikaria, where people live to 100. A turning point in the way you cook.

About the Cuisine of Longevity
The Functional Kitchen of Longevity is not simply a method George and Eleni invented; it is one they inherited. Rooted in the traditions passed down by their ancestors and refined alongside some of the longest-lived people on Ikaria, its principles have also been explored through modern nutritional science, including research into inflammation, gut health and the prevention of chronic disease.
It is a new concept derived from ancient wisdom, offering a different approach to how food is prepared today. Most modern cooking focuses on the finished dish, but the Kitchen of Longevity also considers how food is treated throughout the cooking process.

The Objective
Tasty food. Nutrient-rich food. Achieving both is a challenge: high heat can create delicious flavours but may degrade certain nutrients, while gentler preparation can help preserve them but requires a different approach to flavour.
The Kitchen of Longevity aims to bridge this gap.
The philosophy extends beyond the kitchen. Movement, sleep, the rhythms of natural fasting and daily rituals all play a role in overall wellbeing. This is what makes it a functional kitchen: food is considered part of a wider system of habits that support long-term health.

The Three Secrets of the Ikarian Longevity Kitchen
Heat – How heat is applied and controlled to help protect nutrients that can be lost during high-temperature cooking.
Pairing – How ingredients are combined, and when they are kept separate, to influence how the body absorbs and uses nutrients.
Balance – How these combinations change from meal to meal and season to season, reflecting the inherited principles behind the Ikarian approach to food.

On the day
30 minutes: An introduction to the principles of the Ikarian Kitchen of Longevity.
2.5 hours: Hands-on cooking with George and Eleni, learning practical techniques to take home and incorporate into everyday cooking.
1 hour: A shared meal accompanied by natural wine from the Karimalis family vineyard.

What’s included:

Welcome refreshments and drinks throughout
Use of apron, equipment all at hand, ready for the class
A shared dinner with natural wine or soft drinks
10% discount* on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes

About George & Eleni Karimalis
George and Eleni Karimalis run the Karimalis Winery and Farmhouse Restaurant in Pigi, Ikaria, one of the world's five Blue Zones, known for the longevity and health of its population.

With family roots on Ikaria spanning five centuries, their knowledge comes not from textbooks alone but from generations of inherited wisdom and more than 50 years of lived experience on the land their family has farmed for centuries.

They deliver 20–30 workshops each year for medical symposiums, professional chefs and wellness communities across Europe and North America. Their work has been featured on Netflix's Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones and in Channel 4's documentary with Jon Snow.

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.