For this 1.5 hour virtual workshop, Vanessa, Director of caterToronto will teach you one of her personal dumpling recipes with an option to pre-purchase an ingredient-only or curated cook-along kit to prepare vegetarian or meat dumplings (more information below). Vanessa will share insights about how people and places factor into culturally appropriate and commercially available foods. This event will enhance your understanding of what we can do to ensure diverse, dignified, and delicious eats in our future of food.

The Toronto Ward Museum (TWM) has partnered with caterToronto (cT) and Culinaria Research Centre (CRC) at the University of Toronto to bring you Dishing Up Toronto 2020! This reimagined event sees our Dishing Up Toronto Festival pivoting for pandemic realities while still pushing conversations around food, culture, and newcomer stories forward.

We've planned this event with participation and accessibility in mind for this reason a variety of participation and cook-along kits are available!

General admission (Free - registration only) includes:

1. Your registration to the event
2. Digital recipe card for a vegetarian or meat dumpling

Ingredient-only cook-along kit* $20 per person, not including processing fees, includes:

1. Your registration to the event
2. Digital recipe card for a vegetarian or meat dumpling
3. The vegetarian or meat ingredients that you'll need for the workshop

Curated cook-along kit* $75 per person, not including processing fees, includes:

1. Your registration to the event
2. Digital recipe card for vegetarian or meat dumplings
3. The vegetarian or meat ingredients that you'll need for the workshop
4. Local artisan-made ceramics by Vivian @blackboughstudio (sauce bowl, plate, and chopstick holder)
5. Dumpling-making tools (roller, spider, steamer set-up & chopsticks)
6. Small eats to accompany the dumplings.

ALL cook along kits have option for pick-up from 2 select locations (West Toronto and East Toronto - details to be confirmed over email);

Option for delivery anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area for an additional $15 fee .

* Limited quantities available, deadline to order is Monday December 14th

About Dishing Up Toronto:

Dishing up Toronto (DUT) is a community-led program of the Toronto Ward Museum (TWM) . Through a participatory and multi-sector approach, the project brings together multiple stakeholders interested in using food as a vehicle to explore questions of identity, equity and belonging as it relates to Toronto's past, present and future.

Programming partners Culinaria, caterToronto and TWM believe it is important to deliver programming to understand, record and communicate the importance of the food system in the context of Covid-19 and have planned a 2 part Covid friendly event.

caterToronto:

caterToronto is a neighbourhoods-based catering network with the mission to cultivate better social and economic food system connections by integrating affordable and accessible kitchen space, foodservice industry technical assistance, as well as feasible and feast-able market opportunities!

We work with racialized women and partners in low-income neighbourhoods to create diverse, dignified, and delicious eats!

Culinaria Research Centre

The Culinaria Research Centre is a multidisciplinary initiative that blends research excellence with community engagement and student research experience. Our projects provide new insights into some of the major questions circulating in the field of Food Studies today, including the place of food in cultural identity and expression; the relationship between food, diaspora, and inter-ethnic/inter-cultural contact in Canada and beyond; commodity production and labour, from slavery to the age of empire to the present-day; and the links between food systems, health, gender, and family.

Toronto Ward Museum:

The Toronto Ward Museum is a community-engaged museum that facilitates the preservation and sharing of personal stories of migrants in Toronto’s history. We utilize collaborative processes to identify community needs and opportunities, then use those insights to create programming that promotes empathy and curiosity between storytellers, community members and the larger public. The museum also creates forums for dialogue from arts and/or history-based programming that is relevant to migration, citizenship and pluralism within an urban context. Finally, we act as a catalyst in community initiatives and forge partnerships between individuals, communities, and organizations toward our collective empowerment.