Preserving Ancestral Recipes

A food storytelling workshop with London Migration Film Festival x Kishanth Javegar

I’m excited to announce that I’ve partnered with @londonmigrationfilmfestival to host a workshop - ‘Preserving Ancestral Recipes: Create A Storytelling Family Cookbook’.

Everything we eat tells a story. Food connects us to people, histories, and traditions, evoking powerful emotions and childhood memories.
For children of diaspora, seeking to explore and understand their ancestry and cultures, food can become a trojan horse for connection and understanding migration.

How can we document and preserve our ancestral family recipes as heirlooms through creative mediums and ensure it is passed down through generations?

In the face of forced migration, colonialism, ethnic cleansing and the climate crisis. It's even more urgent that our stories are documented and live through our food.

Join storyteller and filmmaker கிஷான்த் ஐவகர் - Kishanth Javegar in a workshop where he shares how he documented his Tamil family’s ancestral recipes.
Discover practical tools to explore your family’s culinary heritage, ask meaningful questions, and create a family cookbook, preserving stories and traditions through the food that shapes your identity.

Hamar Tribe

Konzo Tribe

Karo Tribe

Dassanech Tribe

Mursi Tribe