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Using food to bring people together
Building: @ggfoodclub
Curating: @eatmemarket_
📍 Dubai

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Here’s a quick visual recollection of the participatory talk I held at @isola.space, organized in collaboration with @ggfoodclub.

After exchanging messages with @rohasdaud for some time, we finally met back in August and talked all things food. How we both came to look at it intentionally, and how it has come to give meaning and a sense of mission to our lives at this moment.

After spending so much time connecting with food as both a subject and a lens in solitude, it has been so wonderful to exchange thoughts with Roha and @sarababar. We left that conversation with a very simple “let’s do something together.”

Fast forward through quite a bit of thinking, and thanks to the gracious acceptance of @elif_resitoglu to host us at @isola.space, we decided to take my method of looking deeply at one ingredient out into the world.

And so, Yields of Knowing was born. A series of participatory talks that take my curiosity and research beyond books and the internet, inviting people to contribute their own knowledge, memories, recipes and stories. The intention is to listen, learn and record what we know about food, together.

We started with RICE.

In all honesty, I started the talk soooooo nervous. By the end of it, after listening to everyone’s stories, I was so emotional. Because food is deep, deep, deep. There is so much of who we are ingrained in what we grow, cook, eat, remember and pass on.

I’ll of course share more about the talk very soon.

For now, this is also my official submission to the manifestation gods: may this be the first of many, many, MANY talks, all the way to the biggest TEDx stage, so that one day, when I say “thank you for listening to my TED Talk,” it will actually be for real. ☺️

And to everyone who came, listened and shared a little piece of themselves, thank you. ❤️

Photography: @lucy.gaishun 🙏🪄 thank you

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WELCOME TO THE COUNTER — our hands-on workshop series, and part of what the membership offers at GGFC. Every month, we get our hands dirty and learn a real, tangible kitchen skill, taught by a different maker from the culinary world.

Kicking off with our friends at @subkouae

Sairaj, one of Subko’s youngest head roasters, walked our members through a two-hour cupping session: three coffees, three origins, India, China & Myanmar.
It was a crash course in actually tasting what’s in your cup. Members identified the beans, worked through the notes with Sairaj, and left knowing a lot more than they came in with.

This is the start to a year long partnership we have with @subkouae — expect a lot more dynamic, hands-on programming from Global Girls Food Club x Subko in the months ahead. ☕️

Want your weeknights to look like this? Join our membership! 🤸🏾
✉️- Waitlist linked in bio

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#GlobalGirlsFoodClub #Coffee #Food #Workshop #Culture

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🇦🇪 WELCOME TO THE GLOBAL GIRLS FOOD CLUB MEMBERSHIP LAUNCH 👯‍♀️🤸🏾🙂‍↔️

It’s story time!

✨ Last week we hosted our Welcome Party for our members, a beautiful Kerala style dinner, hosted by @neethu!

A full-circle moment for us because @sunshineneethu found her way to GGFC because she overheard a conversation at a coffee shop :)

The woman she overheard, @mariamzoha , brought her to one of our meet-ups at Pili Pili last year. We then met Neethu at @ajar.katarbayeva_ iftar, and somewhere in there, Neethu invited all of us over for dinner at her place, which basically turned into a Kerala feast that left all of us speechless! That’s when @sarababar and I told her that you’re hosting our first welcome dinner and we’re going to make sure you launch your supper club!!

Last week, @sunshineneethu did both, cooking for our Founding members and our culinary creatives in her own home, launching her Supper Club - Mohabbat :) ❤️

This is just ONE of the reasons why we wanted to build our membership. So we have the opportunity to champion, promote and create a supportive space for the phenomenal female culinary talent in the region and bring them to the forefront.

Our membership is for every woman. Whether or not you have anything to do with the culinary world. We want to move beyond mindless consumption. Come experience food in a social, cultural and interactive way.

🎟️ - Join the membership - waitlist in bio.

🎥 - @burntcreative.me
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#GlobalGirlsFoodClub #Supperclub #KeralaCuisine #Dinner #social

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A couple of Fridays ago we sat down together, broke bread, and somehow ended up deep in childhood stories. I love how a table does that, takes you back in time and teaches you something new along the way.

Sitting in a room with that much warmth and respect is exactly the why behind my love for food culture and community. And the reason we are building @ggfoodclub .The region’s first culinary social club for women. DM to find out more about our membership.

#FoodCulture #CommunalTable #GlobalGirlsFoodClub #DubaiFood

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We’re building the tables we were always looking for. The region’s first culinary community & social club for women. DM to join the membership 💛

#foodculture #womanhood #dubaifood #ggfc

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Karachi, your energy is infectious! 🇵🇰

Hosted our first ‘culinary creatives’ meet-up in collaboration with @chaihustle & loved learning about all the fun work that women are doing here!

Despite the daily structural challenges, we’re going to see really novel concepts popping up and so many of them have such passionate & talented women behind them. 😍🙋🏽‍♀️

Here’s to doing more events across South Asia.

For our UAE friends - our memberships are launching soon! JOIN THE WAITLIST - LINKED IN BIO📮

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Five years. Hundreds of women. Countless stories.

We asked our members one simple question:

“What has WCGA helped you become over the years?”

This is what they said.

Part 1 of 3. 🤍

#IAMWCGA #WCGA5Years #wcga #womenscareergoalsandaspirations

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Welcome to Culinary Creatives — our new monthly round table for women shaping the food space across the region.

For our first session, we hosted breakfast for 12 women at one of our favourite Palestinian, family-run spots in Dubai — @mishkah.ae in Al Quoz🫒. Over breakfast, we talked about what everyone’s excited about right now, their journeys so far, and how GGFC can support them this coming season.

Women in the regional food space are doing incredible work, and we wanted to bring them together to shape food culture as a collective — talking trends, ideas, and more sustainable ways of working, specifically through a female lens.

The Format: we’ll handpick women across different mediums in food for each table — this isn’t just for chefs & cooks - We want creative directors in food, food innovation specialists, agriculturalists and herbalists, tablescapers, food researchers, writers and editors, recipe developers, nutritionists, people working in climate and soil, food artists — and anyone else shaping or impacting food in ways we haven’t even listed!

If that’s you, drop us a DM🍴🥰

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#CulinaryCreatives #GGFC #WomenInFood #dubai #AlQuoz

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Not Your Average Sunday Market!

@ggfoodclub x @thebureauae 🤸🏾🫶🏾

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Global Girls Food Club x @hafsalodi

We’re hosting a cookbook potluck next! DM us to join our whatsapp group for more details ✨

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@somewhere hosted an intimate suhoor on Women's Day to celebrate one month of Turbulence 📖✈️✨ The delicious Ramadan menu was reimagined with custom touches from the novel, and discussion transitioned from pivotal themes of the book to reflecting on the real-life Turbulence all around us right now 💭🤲🏽

Culinary highlights: the avocado focaccia, nachos chicken fattoush and green zaatar taouk 🤤

Thank you @somewhere, and the lovely ladies who stepped out for a little break amid the chaos 🌻 Grateful for the conversation, alignment, support and sisterhood 🩷

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A Pakistani Iftar in collaboration with @gilded.table & in Partnership with @sakinahhealthfoundation.

🎥- @studio_617_

#food #ramadan #iftar #pakistan #community

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