Events

Once again this year, “Mills of Rodia” from Grevena collaborated with Voiaki Estia and its exceptional president, Mr. George Papadopoulos, for the pie festival that has now become an institution!

People of all ages have always loved pies in the villages of Voio, in Macedonia, which is why pies have always been and still are found in every home! They are pleasantly eaten for breakfast, as an afternoon snack, and often replace lunch. The ingredients are whatever good nature offers, depending on the season!

As part of the tradition dissemination, Polyxeni Preveza, a third-generation miller’s daughter, reminded us how to roll pie dough and spoke about its secrets! Both she and the skillful women of Voio made pies and sweets this year to welcome everyone! Guests were greeted with roxakia, revani, and pliaf! Naturally, the pies of the region were the highlight of the event: cheese pie, leek pie, bran pie, pumpkin pie, spinach pie, corn pie, nettle pie, trachana pie, sourdough pie, and spinach cheese pie.

We thank Maria Chatzikonstantinou, Stavroula Gotzamani, Konstantina Avlogiari, Eleni Moustakli, Margarita Lafazanidou, Chrysoula Mita, George Papaparaschos, Christina Papadopoulou, and Theodora Papadopoulou.

The speaker of the event was the Deputy Mayor of Thessaloniki, Theodora Leipsistinos, philologist, author, and notable Voian, who described the dietary habits of our region, and we thank her very much!

Our event was honored by the presence of Thessaloniki MP and lawyer Ms. Anna Efthymiou, municipal councilor and educator Ms. Eleni Antoniadou, Thessaloniki politician and lawyer Ms. Aphrodite Nestor, president of the Macedonian Philanthropic Brotherhood Mr. Nikolaos Valkanos, the distinguished chef Nikolaos Alexiadis and president of Pancretan Macedonia Mr. Petros Petrakakis!

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From the rich land of Western Macedonia, we gather high-quality grains from the finest varieties of our region. Our expertise, combined with the harvesting of grains from the wider area of Western Macedonia, makes us particularly competitive with the advantage of producing pure products without additives and preservatives.

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Voiaki Estia at the Business

This time, we made Cretan Kalitsounia with the “Mills of Rodia” and the “Cretans of Macedonia”.

After all, the love between Macedonia and Crete is well-known! The recipe and execution were done by the wonderful Cretan, Katerina Spantidaki!

The “Cretans of Macedonia” and their president, Giannis Kapetanakis (Cretan Association of Pavlos Melas and Friends), hosted us at the 14th Primary School of Stavroupoli and organized the 1st Cretan Gastronomy Seminar, which took place on Sunday, November 12, 2023, and was a great success!

Rethymnian Katerina Spantidaki shared her knowledge of the traditional Cretan recipe and showed us her secrets! We made many, many Cretan Kalitsounia… the ovens were baking non-stop…!

We were delighted to participate in this event and look forward to doing it again!

Second year pie celebration with the Voiaki

Rodia Mills of Grevena with the cooperation of Voiaki Estia successfully organized, for the second consecutive year, the ‘Pie Celebration’ in May 2023.

Polixeni Preveza made a special flaky Greek pastry with the aim of spreading the pie preparation tradition.

Women from the area of Voios followed by making several delicious Greek pies as part of this utterly successful event.

We would like to thank all the following ladies: Maria Hatzikostadinou, Stavroula Gotzamani, Kostadina Avlogianni, Eleni Moustakli, Aggeliki Papadopoulou, Vicky Parmakelli, Christina Papadopoulou and Chrysoula Mita. Their contribution to the success of the event was most invaluable.

All the previously mentioned ladies prepared traditional pies from the area of Voios like, cheese pie, spinach pie, leek pie, pumpkin pie, wheat bran pie, nettle pie, sourdough pie and ‘trachanas’ pie (wheat flakes used to make a special soup).

These pies represent past dietary habits of the people of the area of Voios, which may have been frugal but they were still able to cover the needs in terms of food due to the rich flora and fauna of the local area.

The key speaker of the event was Theodora Ipsistinou, philologist and writer, who elaborated on the dietary habits of the area. We would, thus, like to pay special thanks to her.

The speech of dr Maria Bougoulia endocrinologist – diabetologist

During one of the first events that we organized we had the pleasure of hosting the distinguished and much esteemed endocrinologist and diabetologist, Dr Maria Bougoulia, PhD of the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from the Department of Biological Chemistry, as a keynote speaker. The topic of her speech was ‘Antioxidant foods – an Ally to our Health’.

Our visit to the Fryganiotis schools

As part of all the educational activities included in the 24^th ‘Green Week’ in order to celebrate the twenty – fourth anniversary of raising environmental awareness among students with the topic of: ‘Gifts of Nature’, Fryganiotis School had the chance to welcome in the school premises, Ms Kostadina Preveza, CEO of Rodia Mills of Grevena. She visited the school with a team of highly experienced bakers, representatives of the company GrEatings, which has a long tradition of many years in our city in the field of food catering.

The purpose of their visit was to carry out a creative interactive program called ‘Bread Creations’.

The event started with the presentation of an exceptionally interesting history of bread. We travelled back in time, observing wheat stacks and antique old scales and we became aware of all kinds of grain, from which bread can be manufactured.

All the students were divided in small groups so that they could make and bake their own bread rolls, bagels and raisin bread rolls. They had the magical opportunity to get in touch with bread, this highly nutritional type of food, which constitutes the bottom of the food pyramid. All the bread creations of the students contained high quality flour provided by our company Rodia Mills of Grevena.

The little bakers put in their highest effort to make delicious bread products under the vigilant supervision of our experts. Then, they baked and finally tasted their creations, feeling extremely proud of all they had accomplished.

In conclusion, the students participated with utter enthusiasm in this workshop and they were left with the best impression. We would like to offer our most sincere thanks to Ms Kostadina Preveza and the representatives of GrEatings for their kind sponsorship and all the time they devoted to execute this thoroughly educational workshop with great success.

Finally, on behalf of our company, we would like to thank you, Fryganiotis School, for your kind hospitality and the wonderful opportunity we were given by participating in your brilliantly organized Christmas workshop. We had the chance to create various types of bread related products along with the students. We were able to educate students and remind the younger generation what their ancestors consumed since the beginning of the history of bread.

The whole experience was unique, we were sincerely emotionally touched and we could not thank you enough!