04/04/2025
Red Sauce & Shashlik
A journey I’ve been working toward for years—quietly, steadily, and with a lot of garlic.
After a decade of Elements of Food, I’m launching something close to my heart: a new tour (or better yet, a journey) that explores the untold story of immigrants in East Berlin’s food scene during the DDR.
At the time, immigrants were almost invisible in public life. They had no restaurants, no platform, and no recognition. But they were here—cooking in courtyards, sharing meals behind closed doors, laying the unspoken groundwork for what Berlin would later become.
This tour is part history, part imagination—grounded in truth, guided by research, and filled with the small details that never made it into the official narrative. It’s my tribute to those whose stories were left out, and a small gesture of thanks to the people who were never properly thanked.
You’ll taste Shashlik. Red sauce. Talk about borders, memory, migration, and everything in between.
It’s a time machine—with extra garlic.
Come hungry.
📷 Boaz Arad
