I slip a red dress over my head. The silhouette is fashionably curved, the fabric luxuriously soft and the hemline festooned with small red bobbles.

But this is no ordinary fashion frock: Upon closer inspection, it is the sartorial equivalent of a tongue.

Food in all its glory — including its relation to various parts of the human anatomy — takes center stage in an interactive new exhibition that playfully decodes its role in the modern world.