Melih Aydemir’s video essay ‘‘ancestral diet (albanian börek to Quinoa salad)’’, 2021 stands as a collage uniting personal migration histories with eating habits according to one’s ancestral background. It questions the trends around diet, from paleo to superfoods and evolves into an understanding of personal history through food consumption. While discussing the effects of globalization, a tunnel of thoughts on erasure, umbrella terms, and web based information opens up.
Melih Aydemir, Ancestral Diet (albanian börek to quinoa salad), 2021, Video essay, 04:29
