Even the characteristics of the pudding itself make it well suited to use in dialogue. Noah’s Pudding is made from an oddment of ingredients that you would not usually expect to mix well together. In fact they make a most appetising dessert. The variety of ingredients of different shapes, tastes and textures can be likened to people. In Noah’s Pudding, the mixing of different ingredients results in a delicious explosion of flavours. So too, when diverse communities come together something good can come about from their interaction and conversation. Appropriately, while they all contribute to a single delicious pudding, the ingredients in Noah’s Pudding retain their own individual tastes and textures.

Similarly, dialogue events are about bringing different people together around shared values and aspirations without denying their individual characteristics, their distinctive “flavours”. Because the Islamic calendar is shorter than the Gregorian calendar, the Islamic months begin approximately eleven days earlier each year. Consequently the day of Ashurah (10th Muharram) will fall ten or eleven days earlier next year than it did this year. If you want to share Noah’s Pudding on the day of Ashurah please check the date. However, please note that Noah’s Pudding does not have to be given out on that day. The pudding is a matter of custom and can be shared at any time of the year.