There are some stores that make a difference in their local (and beyond) community with their unique identity and character, offering services that positively escape the norm. Businesses that check all the boxes when it comes to starring in the local economy using traditional products. One such business is on Paxos Island, in Lakka to be more precise. “Taste and flavor of olive” is the ideal place to get some quality traditional products.
It is a family business making a true effort to offer something new and unique. It offers only goods produced at “NYMFESFARM”, the farm of the Kefallinos family, located at northern Corfu. Their aim is to offer visitors quality homemade products, pure traditional flavors from the soil of Corfu, as they put it.
Their olive oil is organic and virgin, cold-pressed, with which they make a plethora of products both edible and cosmetic. The oil itself can be bought in bottles with fresheners such as rosemary, garden cress-pepper mix, hot pepper, sage, basil, flavors that will surely give your cooking an edge.
The store also offers soap-based olive oil and a broad range of natural perfumes like propolis-honey-wax, lavender, clay, vanilla-cinnamon, orange, wild cherry, aloe, bay, pomegranate and more, as well as body and face moisturizing creams with natural aromas. Even if you just happen to pass by, go inside just to get a sniff of the unbelievable soap scents like wild cherry and you will immediately realize the high level of quality of this store’s products.
Apart from olives and olive oil, “Taste and flavor of olive” also specializes in handmade marmalade, also produced with ingredients from the Kefallinos family farm. They are all made using brown sugar and fruit from their garden in various tasty combinations, like kumquat, quince-pomegranate, orange-pomegranate, green apple-pomegranate, orange-ginger and fig.
Finally, one cannot omit to mention the various artistic creations and tidbits you can find in the store. With just a paintbrush and collage techniques “Taste and flavor of olive” decorate and transform soap, wax, candles, boxes, various containers and an assortment of other objects.
