PROJECT STATEMENT

؜Despite being on opposite sides of Europe, Ireland and Palestine share a surprisingly similar history of colonial oppression and exploitation. These three Irish-Palestinian fusion dishes explore common themes of these two nations oppression and eventual struggle for freedom. This project will create a set of vessels to serve and expand upon the story told in the fusion dishes.

؜FOOD RITUAL

CRAFT TRADITION

Taboon is a traditional flatbread made with a large clay oven. Taboon is used in popular dishes including musakhan.

Jarrah is a style of water storage pot traditionally used and made by women with coil-built ceramics.

CULTURAL RESEARCH

PALESTINE

؜FOOD RITUAL

CRAFT TRADITION

؜Barmbrack is often baked on Halloween with items inside,e and depending on which g one you find, it means different things. If you find a coing you will find luck financially. If you get a ring, you will get married within a year.

Spongeware is an Irish pottery decoration that is done by dipping spoons into glaze and then pressing that onto the dish or vessel to create an interesting pattern

CULTURAL RESEARCH

IRELAND

PALESTINE

IRELAND

1. ؜Simple geometric forms
2. ؜Heavy use of blues and bright colors
3. Intercut patterning

1. ؜Earthy + Natural color palette
2. Interlaced knotwork
3. Nature focused

APPETIZER

This dish combines the flavors of Irish Stew with the form and yogurt sauce of Shish Barak, a type of Palestinian dumpling. This dish focuses on the ties of both dishes to community gatherings and togetherness. Irish stew was used as a way to make scarce meat stretch further when there wasn’t enough, such as during the Great Potato Famine. It uses mostly potato, carrots, and peas with a smaller amount of meat and broth, cooked all together. Irish Stew is often made as a large communal dish, similar to Shish Barak.

Shish Barak is a type of dumpling with a meat filling, cooked in a yogurt sauce. Shish Barak is also served as a communal dish, mainly because of the long preparation time and large amount of servings that can be made at the same time. The combination of the two dishes is Shish Barak with the filling replaced with Irish Stew. It’s cooked in the yogurt sauce from Shish Barak and served covered in it, with mint on top.

Sketches

APPETIZER

PROTOTYPES

Digital Model

3D Printed Positive

APPETIZER

FABRICATION

ENTREE

This dish combines Musakhan, a Palestinian chicken dish that’s served over Taboon flatbread, using Soda Bread to replace the flatbread. Soda Bread is a type of Irish bread that uses baking soda as its only leavening agent, replacing yeast entirely. This dish utilizes cornmeal in place of flour used in the soda bread. The cornmeal is a nod to the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, during which the British government sent cornmeal to Ireland to be used as a substitute for the potato starch that was a staple of most meals. Overall, the Irish were frustrated by this because undercooked cornmeal meals were difficult to eat and gave people indigestion.

Musakhan is a dish that uses chicken cooked with spices served over Taboon bread, a type of flatbread. Musakhan is often made as an act of resistance against cultural appropriation and the occupation of Palestine, and to keep Palestinian culture alive. Activists like Hanadi Halawani make Musakhan to resist attempts to erase Palestinian culture. These two dishes are deeply linked to the struggles against their occupiers that both countries have had, as well as the fight to keep their culture alive in the face of cultural erasure.

sketches

ENTREE

PROTOTYPES

Digital Model

3D Printed Positive

ENTREE

FABRICATION

DESSERT

Irish Fruit Cake is a type of fruit cake made by boiling most of the ingredients in a pan to bring out the flavors, then combining these with flour to make a thicker batter. This dish is used because of its history involved in the Fruitcake Prison Break, in which Eamon de Valera (an Irish republican) was broken out of prison with a key smuggled in baked inside of a fruitcake. This dish uses Irish Fruit Cake with candied orange peel baked into it, topped with candied Jaffa orange slices.

Jaffa oranges are a type of Palestinian orange with strong ties to cultural erasure and appropriation. Starting in 1948, with the creation of the State of Israel, Israel began confiscating Jaffa orange groves. They used absentee property laws allowing Israel to confiscate land owned by people who became refugees after the 1948 Palestine War. These two components fit together well because of their shared ties to resistance and cultural erasure.

sketches

DESSERT

PROTOTYPES

Digital Model

3D Printed Positive

Plaster Mold

DESSERT

FABRICATION

؜MOLD DIAGRAMS

؜USE DIAGRAM

RENDERINGS

APPETIZER

ENTREE

DESSERT

NEXT STEPS

Cast cermic parts with the complete plaster molds

؜Finish making any incomplete molds

؜Glaze and decorate the pieces

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