Piecing together the shards of history of his ancestors at Ioannina (pr.Yannena, Isaak Dostis talks about the vanishing ancient diaspora of Rommaniote Jews of Ioannina. His work to ensure that they are never lost from our collective memory.

Secret Cuisines and Sacred Rituals

A Hannukah Homage - The Last of the Ancient Diaspora - The Rommaiote Jews of Ioannina (pr. Yannena) with Isaak Dostis

Secret Cuisines & Sacred Rituals are memoirs of cultures in the voice of their food, traditions, memories and longings. Join me, the host, Vilasi Venkatachalam, as we explore ancient routes, cradles of cultures, culinary traditions, modern renditions of old things, vanishing diaspora, fading rituals… it is more reverence than nostalgia; honoring grit, ingenuity and wisdom and our attempts to do old things in new ways and new things in old ways. This is Season 2. We gather stories, cuisines and rituals from Silk Roads, Spice Routes, Seaports, Trading Posts, Temple Foods, Untried chunk of the Indian East – The 7 Sisters and their Brother of the Blue Hills & Red River.

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