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Graffiti Door Art: Bubbles Bcn
Storytelling: Oana Maroti

This cute metal door graffiti character shares her heart in a reticent place. Bubble's work is positioned at the entrance of a Ukrainian restaurant, which is something new for Cataluña, even if is full of Eastern European workers the specific food is difficult to find or close to impossible.

I even had the curiosity to check if books are presenting the rich Eastern European culinary culture in the libraries or associated projects, based on visibility and interculturality and the conclusion is sad. The information related to this part of the world is poor or nonexistent and we assist at the first restaurant openings of Eastern European food in Barcelona. Quite exciting news for salted breakfast lovers and sour taste enthusiasts.

People here use regularly some Eastern-European-inspired dishes or aliment processing methods but they know them under other names, the occupier's vocabulary, not the original names. The Eastern-European identity seems to have been swallowed over here and confused with the Russian, French, or German. More than that there seems to be a big culinary interest and familiarity with the Bohemian menu, even if the food has Bavarian names.

Indifferent of how many versions there are, the Ukrainian and Moldavian borsh was on the menu long before these occupying countries even existed. For Eastern Europeans, the way we process food is a shared history of survival skills we pass from one generation to another, maintaining flavors and ancient knowledge and sharing the collective taste memory.

If you're invited to an Eastern European meal, instead of avoiding it because of some taught fear, you might consider a possible delicious experience you never had before.