122: Celebrating the Diversity of Torontonian Food through The Depanneur Cookbook with Len Senater
AnthroDish5 Maalis 2024

122: Celebrating the Diversity of Torontonian Food through The Depanneur Cookbook with Len Senater

When I think of a quintessentially Torontonian food experience, I tend to think of The Depanneur. Founded in 2011, The Depanneur was a tiny old corner store that transformed into a place where interesting food things happen, featuring hundreds of talented cooks and home chefs serving thousands of eclectic meals through unique Drop-In Dinners, cooking classes, table talks, and supper clubs. It was also the birthplace of Newcomer Kitchen, a non-profit social enterprise that helped create social and economic opportunities for Syrian refugee women through food-based projects.

Today on the show is the founder of The Depp, Len Senater, who speaks to the way he created space in Toronto's increasingly gentrified hospitality world to maintain experimental approaches about food's role in building community and celebrating diversity. He shares the story behind his recently launched cookbook, The Depanneur Cookbook, which launched as a Kickstarter campaign in November 2020. Equal parts documentary, manifesto, and cookbook, the book features delicious food, poignant stories, and beautiful photography by Ksenija Hotic. More than just a collection of authentic home cooking from around the world, it is the only cookbook that truly captures the incredible culinary diversity of Toronto.

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