Part II: WrangelKiez & Building a Food System for Everyone

🎙️ ✨ EPISODE 5 - Part II: Building a Food System for Everyone

Episode five acknowledges the homogeneity found currently in discussions of food and agriculture in Berlin and questions how we can expand the conversations to include many more perspectives moving forward.

Part II continues to explore different food cultures and Berlin, the stereotypes and prejudices that shape the food system, and the beautiful diversity within different food cultures that we could all do better to appreciate and support.  

 

Episode Flow

1:05 - Sissi from EatingInBerlin

6:05 - Racism in the Food System

7:07 - The horrible myth of MSG

9:24 - The Eating Habits of different Food Cultures 

11:48 -  Deang from The Panda Noodle

14:09 - German Price/Value Conundrum 

17:58 - New crops for diaspora cuisine? 

21:36 - How and why the food system is shaped...

23:05 - The Smells Like Market and BIPOC Excellence :) 

24:40 - YAAM - Young African Art Market

25:24 - Alumi, the OG of African Food in Berlin

28:11 - Creating a space for the African Kitchen in Berlin

32:58 - The future of African Food here in Berlin

35:35 - The complexity of building a food system for everyone

 

Links to resources

1. Diaspora Food and the Just Foodways Project
2. Sissi, the woman behind EatinginBerlin on Instagram 
3. The horrible myth of MSG and why it lingers
4. Halal meat Banned at EU level
5. Daeng’s short documentary series Papaya & Pommes
6. The Panda Noodle: https://www.instagram.com/thepandanoodle/ 
7. “Food is there to give you sustenance - pleasure is merely consequential.
8. Smells Like Collective: https://www.instagram.com/smells__like/
9. Karneval der Kulturen: https://www.karneval.berlin/  
10. YAAM: https://www.yaam.de/ 
11. Alumi’s imbiss, the Afro Kuche, at YAAM
12. Another great African Food resource: https://www.africanfoodmap.com/

 

PRODUCTION

🌱 Audio for this episode was produced by Grettch ⬅️

🌱 Production, Script, Narration and Creative Direction by Samie Blasingame

 

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