A New National Dish: UAE

AlSerkal Avenue, Dubai, 2020

An exhibition and eating experience by the Center for Genomic Gastronomy that imagined how climate change will alter what people eat in the UAE ten years from now. 

It is the year 2030, and the national dish of the UAE is…?

New National Dish: UAE laid out four possible directions that the national cuisine – and by extension the UAE itself – may take in response to the environmental, economic and social impacts of climate change. Using stories, recipes, tasters and re-designed national flags, it presented speculative fictions for visitors to taste and debate, imagine with, or push back against. 

Supported by the British Council, this project was an extension of the V&A exhibition, Food: Bigger than the Plate. 

Curator: Catherine Flood
Artists: The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy

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