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Balkan Cuisine in the Diaspora: Exploring Identity Through Culinary Traditions

Irina JanakievskaFood writer and cultural researcher

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Balkan Cuisine in the Diaspora: Exploring Identity Through Culinary Traditions

Food is one of the most intimate archives of diaspora life. Irina Janakievska explores how Balkan culinary traditions have been preserved, adapted, and reimagined in diaspora — and what the kitchen reveals about identity, belonging, and the long negotiation between home and host country.

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