MOCK WILD PICNIC (Egypt) v2.0 took the form of a bus trip through the Western Desert, where recipes from an alternate food future were tasted in-situ, and attendees visited the artificial river that extends the Nile and is fed by the world’s largest water treatment plant.
MOCK WILD PICNICS are alternate-reality (AR) food events for imagining hybrid landscapes and cuisines and prototyping other food futures at sites of transition around the world.
MOCK WILD PICNIC (Egypt) imagines a near future where disparate greening projects, historic land use, and agroecological farms blur, generating alternatives and questioning how—and why—wild Western Desert lands are being converted into agricultural land.
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Welcome Drink
Date Clementine Tea
SNACK 1: Snack Box
Chickpea breadsticks,
Millet crackers,
Barley Flatbread Matrouh Olive oil & Mahlab Dukkah
Pumpkin Laseemah
Hibiscus-cured Tilapia Canape with Capers and Nori
Goat Cheese and Fig Tart with Almonds
Marinated Olives
Lunch
Buffalo Bresaola Sandwich in Tigernut Foccacia,
with pickled painted serpent cucumbers, purslane, and Mallawi Cheese
Potato Chips with leaves, sorgo and split chickpeas
SNACK 2: Dessert
Mallawi cheese Flan Patissier,
with sage marinated pomegranate
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CREDITS
Partner & Host: Cairotronica
Researcher: Hala Barakat
Chef: Mona El Sabbahy
Journalist & Researcher: Nada Arafat
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Support: Creative Industries Fund NL / Stimuleringsfonds: Climate Justice
