Of Grandmothers & Good Food: Sanem Su Avci interviews Anastasia Miari

Of Grandmothers & Good Food: 7th Moon Station Athens salon on the 7th of December 2023.

A conversation between travel journalist and food writer Anastasia Miari (author of Grand Dishes and Yiayia and the viral instagram account: @matriarcheats) and Athens-based Turkish historian, performer, fortune-teller and founder of the Magic Kitchen of Excharchia Sanem Su Avci.

Anastasia Miari has documented the precious culture and philosophy of perhaps the last generation of traditional Greek Yiayias from whom we have much to learn; not only from their knowledge of the culinary arts, but also their art, skills and philosophies of living. Previously she travelled the world interviewing grandmothers from Buenos Aires to Palestine, via Milan, Madrid, Istanbul and other places.

Sanem Su Avci has merged the arts and crafts of story-telling, cooking, academia, music and ancient fortune-telling practices in order to find new ways of uncovering the sort of knowledge that we're in danger of completely losing in a fast paced world of speed, short attention-spans, and mindless consumption.

Moon Station Athens is a pop-up salon that connects writers, artists and other creatives living in Athens or passing through.  Hosted in the studio of designer and artist Olympia Zographos www.zographosdesigns.com