What are Albanians best known for?
Well, besides their love of guns, for centuries Albanians have been successfully arranging marriages for their children. What's ‘Their Secret?’ The ancient book of laws, “The Kanun.” written almost two centuries ago. For 500 years, based on the laws found in this Albanian Holy Grail, all arranged marriages went off without a hitch.
Albanians continued this ancient tradition in America where they successfully bought arranged marriages to the United States. The Success rate of an Albanian Marriage 100 %! The Divorce Rate? 0%! With odds like this WHO wouldn't want to be Albanian!? But then in the 2000 something changed. Albanians started to snap.
First young people started to ‘runsavay’ to protest bad marriages. Missing Albanian faces started to appear on milk cartons everywhere. Then they started to rob homes, poison partners with Viagra, and test their cheating spouses underwear for DNA —all in attempts to get out of bad marriages. What went WRONG that worked so well for 500 YEARS?!?!
Join Elza Zagreda, writer and performer of the wildly successful “Corn Bread & Feta Cheese: Growing up FAT & Albanian,” as she unravels the mysteries of the oldest people of the Balkans.