This paper considers the narrative and material practices of Turkish-inspired restaurant owners in Berlin as a site for thinking through the complexities of memory, belonging and care through food.
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This paper focusses on a particular restaurant space in Berlin as a location for understanding what it means to be a migrant-origin entrepreneur in an important European capital. The restaurant owner's narrative of discovery, love for the labor of food, and a sense of belonging to different worlds become materialized in the restaurant space as an aesthetic sensibility, and material food practice. The case study offers a site through which to think about memory, belonging, and care as integral to the way in which minoritized people make a place in the city.