Fatayer bi Banadoura – Full of Tomatoes

Type: Theatrical culinary performance – Work in progress

Synopsis:

I have been working for a while now on a series of culinary performances to shed light on forgotten or unknown rural dishes. For the second dish of this series, I chose a pastry exclusive to my mother’s village Beit Chabeb. It’s Fatayer bi Banadoura – Tomato pastries. 

After going through the recipe with some of the women of my village, holding long discussions and also researching the history of tomatoes, the performance will walk us into the road of love, toxicity, and death.

Together with the audience, we will be making those fatayer and celebrating life and death. 

It is a participatory performance where the audience will be invited to contribute to the Fatayer making.