025 - Dishes that Are Friends

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Dishes that Are Friends is an event series that explores cultural commonalities in the Global South beyond borders and identities. The outcome of each dinner is a printed publication - a collection of illustrated recipes, images and text - that documents the process of organising each event.

Domestic spaces, kitchens in particular, are the core focus and over the course of the series, an archive of these exchanges emerges. Each edition has a menu that consists of several dishes cooked in pairs. They are chosen on the basis of shared characteristics; of ingredients, process or spirit.

Editions vary in their approach; the first explored the links between cuisines either side of Tigris and Euphrates in the Levant and in Iran, and was centred around the coming together of communities from the SWANA region in London; the second, reflects a valued friendship, and was about Iranian and Peranakan home cooking; and the third centred around an unlikely community of Iranians and Tunisians that have come together in the past few years.