Breaking Bread : Nouvelle exposition à Doha sur la nourriture, la foi et les échanges culturels

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Breaking Bread : Nouvelle exposition à Doha sur la nourriture, la foi et les échanges culturels

Le Musée d'art islamique du Qatar offre un festin pour les sens avec A Seat at the Table: Food and Feasting in the Islamic World. L'exposition explore comment la nourriture façonne l'identité, la foi et les échanges culturels.

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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada

00:30and cultural exchange from the emergence of Islam to present day.

00:38Bread is an important staple in many religions and cultures.

00:43While in Arab countries, the name of the clay oven may differ slightly,

00:47tanur, tandir, tandoor, or tonur,

00:50depending on the particular part of the Middle East, Central, or South Asia,

00:54unleavened flatbread is the common denominator.

00:57There are different bread-making traditions that help to define different cultures and communities,

01:04but despite those differences, essentially everyone can come together and break bread.

01:10And that's the message that we wanted to start off the exhibition with.

01:13The exhibition explores the evolution of food.

01:16For co-curator Taslim Sani, food and faith play big roles across the Mediterranean,

01:22North Africa, and the Middle East.

01:25The Islamic faith really plays a key role for Muslims in determining what they should eat,

01:30what's considered permissible, and what they should stay away from.

01:34So we thought of bringing this to the forefront to also teach the audience,

01:38or at least pass a message to the visitors,

01:41that the faith of Muslims is critically important in their relationship with food.

01:46Dr. Tara Desjardins says throughout history, cuisines evolved as new ingredients were introduced.

01:54The trade of certain ingredients at specific moments in time

01:58have helped to inform cultures and dishes that are a result of that culture

02:04that today we might take for granted.

02:06And we don't know, perhaps, where they came from and the long journeys that they traveled.

02:13Those long journeys brought cinnamon, nutmeg, and black pepper westward

02:17from Asia to the Middle East and Europe,

02:20while corn, potatoes, and peppers traveled east across the Atlantic.

02:26The chili pepper actually came from the Americas.

02:29It was one of the quote-unquote New World ingredients

02:32that was brought over during Christopher Columbus's second return voyage.

02:37And it arrived into Europe and then into Asia by the 16th century.

02:45And in Indian cuisine, it was assimilated very, very quickly

02:48because they probably already had a strong taste for, you know,

02:53biting ginger, strong pepper, things like this

02:56that were already indigenous and very prominent in their cuisine.

03:00And so they received it very, very, very warmly.

03:05And they also started to then grow it locally.

03:09The curators invite visitors to think critically

03:12about their relationship with the environment

03:14and where their food comes from.

03:17A lot of times we don't think about the sort of backstage efforts

03:21that goes into food production.

03:22So the kind of water that goes into it,

03:24the amount of land mass that is used,

03:26and how this ends up affecting our environment and our society.

03:29So the idea is just to have people go away with that thought,

03:32thinking about, OK, what role do they have to play

03:35in a globally changing and evolving world

03:38and, you know, becoming a world that's becoming more complex.

03:41Similar to the foods and spices that migrated from one place to another,

03:46Annika Weber is originally from Germany,

03:49but is now based in Qatar.

03:51It's very nice.

03:51It's very interactive.

03:53I like that we're watching also the part where you can smell

03:56the different stuff that was really nice.

03:59And then also you have like old Koran.

04:02And yeah, it's an interesting mixture.

04:03You have something for children, but also something for older people.

04:06So yeah, I feel this is really unites.

04:09And yeah, everyone likes to eat at the end of the day.

04:12A seat at the table is essentially that everyone can come

04:16and participate in food, food culture.

04:20And it speaks not only to the inclusivity of food,

04:23but also the fact that food is something that unites people

04:26more than maybe anything in today's day and age.

04:29This is likely the most photographed part of the exhibition,

04:33the reimagination of what dining with the Sultan would look like.

04:37And no, the food is not real.

04:39It's actually made of paper mache and produced by 40 first-year VCU Qatar students.

04:45It's a class project titled Ramadan Feast,

04:48showcasing the variety of foods used to traditionally break the fast.

04:52A seat at the table runs until later this year.

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