Another specialty is the local honey, aromatic with native oregano and thyme and famous throughout Greece.

If you can buy fresh local honey at a farmer's market or health food store, you can try that instead.

Photo: Supplied The local honey industry is also watching with concern at the possibility of the plant disease devastating native manuka.

Peels maintain that such an initiative would grow the value of the local honey market from R3.2 billion to more than R20 billion.