Media
Deep Dish Dialogues explores food justice from the kitchen with Vanessa Ling Yu
Vanessa explains the difference between ghost/dark kitchens and commissary, community or rental kitchens, including concerns around the former and benefits of the latter for the catering/hospitality industry and the communities they serve.
caterToronto care packages tackle food insecurity with tenderness. CaterToronto’s latest community outreach endeavour reminds me of a common refrain heard at protests against police violence: “Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe.”
In the final installment of our Toronto series, producer TK Matunda sits down with three community organizers to unpack Toronto's food justice scene. This episode, we hear from Vanessa Ling Yu, Director of caterToronto; Paul Taylor, Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto; and Hywel Tuscano, Co-Operator of Nish Dish.
Family restaurants are a part of life for many immigrants in Canada. Parents work long hours in the kitchen and in the dining room serving tables so their children can have better opportunities. It can be gruelling work. So what happens when the kids want to enter the food biz themselves?
Want real Bengali eats? Order from this Regent Park caterer. One of the most unexplored neighbourhoods of the GTA is right under our noses, within city limits.
Has us waking up to the many barriers new food entrepreneurs face in Toronto, and then we figure out how to fix ourselves the right stiff drink for the occasion. First, Jess speaks with Vanessa Ling Yu about how to demystify the process of starting a food business for marginalized Torontonians.
Vanessa Ling Yu, caterToronto Executive Director, gives a summary of the organization's mission, values, and goals. Located in Toronto, ON, caterToronto is a network of creative and collaborative food entrepreneurs, operating as “quiet operators,” “social enterprises,” and “micro-businesses” that are seeking better economic outcomes with dignified, diverse, and delicious food employment and entrepreneurship. We are unique and innovative in every way.
Contact us
