A Menu of Your Life by Nahla Tabbaa
March 2023
Launching Rewilding The Kitchen Nahla Tabbaa assigned participants to read aloud a four-course menu that told the story of who they are. They were also invited to bring one of these dishes so that the programme could launch with a shared collective of food that represented a complex mezze of emotions, life stories and heritage to forgo conventional ways of introducing one another through bios and professional backgrounds.
Among the outcomes:
Samosa Chaat
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ovaltine
Fesenjoon
Coconut Cream Caramel
Salted Buttermilk
Cinammon Milk
Almaziya
Prompt:
If you were to summarise your life in a series of dishes, what would they be? Write them down, tell us why, and create a feast based out of these moments. Though not all dishes may be cohesive, what binds them together is the constellation of memories relevant to you.
About Nahla Tabbaa
Nahla Tabbaa is an artist whose practice explores tensions between the urban and the organic, the beautiful and the grotesque. Sensitive to the self-organising agency of materials, she adventures into the world of immateriality and the intangible through experiments in alchemy and combining elements from the organic and inorganic. Her methods are intentionally slow-paced, meditative and labour intensive and permeate strands of her everyday life to heal and harmonise her otherwise fast-paced life.