2023 - Video interview by Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics

2023 - Podcast Episode by Met Radio - "Ghost Kitchens and Food Justice"

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.

2021 - Article by Now Toronto - "caterToronto care packages tackle food insecurity with tenderness"

2019 - Podcast Episode by Racist Sandwich - "Talking Toronto Food Justice (with Vanessa Ling Yu, Paul Taylor, Hywel Tuscano)

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.

2019 - Podcast Episode by Born & Raised - "Food: The Family Restaurant" 

Description: 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? Host Angelyn Francis and reporter Al Donato present stories that feature the family restaurant, with a twist.

2018 - Article by Suresh Doss at CBC News - "Want real Bengali eats? Order from this Regent Park caterer"

2016 - Podcast Episode by Food Stuffs - "caterToronto & The Whisky Cabinet" 

Description: 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.

2015 - Video interview by Sustain Toronto - "caterToronto Introduction"