The V&A is offering edible tickets to new food exhibition for first 200 visitors

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The first 200 visitors to the V&A’s new food exhibition will be given edible tickets.

The tickets, made from icing sugar, were created to mark the launch of their show Food: Bigger Than The Plate.

Exhibition-goers will be taken through the food cycle from growing to eating and also given a glimpse of the future of food.

The show will combine work from chefs, farmers, scientists and artists, to explore how food can be used to examine society, culture and pleasure, and shed light on our relationship with the natural world.

In total it will include 70 contemporary projects, many of which will present alternative food futures, from gastronomic experiments to farming inventions. Guests will find the exhibition broken down into four different sections: compost, eating, trading and farming.

As well as unusual tickets, the show will feature a number of unconventional exhibits including cheese made with human bacteria and insect pâté. These will be on show alongside 30 different objects from the V&A's collection, including food advert posters, illustrations and ceramics.

The final exhibit is a food cart that will make each visitor a unique canapé based on their answers to a quiz.

The show is said to draw on the V&A’s close links with food. The building housed an early food museum and opened the world’s first purpose-built museum refreshment rooms over 150 years ago.

Food: Bigger Than The Plate opens on Saturday, May 18, and runs until October 20

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