meet isabella

Isabella Zampetaki is a food & travel writer, storyteller and author based in Athens, Greece. She has two sons and 20 square meters of urban land she cultivates, planting on it twice a year in accordance with sustainable farming practices.
Her first book, “Handcrafted Crete”, is a bilingual travel volume exploring all things made by hand on the island and revealing the true essence of the Mediterranean lifestyle. In its pages, we discover a multifaceted variety of age-old crafts from across the plains and mountains of Crete: from textiles, ceramics and knife-making to cheesemaking and the production of olive oil and carob food items. We travel to wineries that produce wine in clay amphorae and to shepherds’ huts where they still make cheese as their grandparents did, in century-old copper cauldrons.
Isabella speaks at conferences and other events about food culture, the Mediterranean diet & lifestyle, travel, sustainability, and wellbeing in a digital world.
She is the creator of the Greek Tourism Awards and the Greek Hotel of the Year Awards.
Isabella was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and started writing about culture, food and travel in 2000. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College, Iowa, in the USA and a Masters in Design of Information and Communication Technologies from Carlos III University in Spain.