Last month we had a wonderful time in Toronto, Ontario filming with Nadima Kinjo, a newcomer from Syria, and Cara Benjamin-Pace, the Executive Director of Newcomer Kitchen at The Depanneur.
Nadima taught me a Syrian recipe for season three of my travel series Seeing Canada. You'll be able to watch the new episodes in 2022 on public TV stations in the USA including on PBS and Create TV and also on Amazon Prime Video around the world.
Newcomer Kitchen started in 2016 as a nonprofit organization that invited Syrian refugee women to cook a weekly meal in a kitchen. The meals were sold online and the proceeds shared among the cooks. It developed into a catering and cooking workshop social enterprise. Newcomer Kitchen now trains newcomer women from all over the world to start their own food businesses. Using real time food events it creates an experiential learning environment and revenue goes to the trainees.
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"Seeing Canada" films at Newcomer Kitchen in Toronto!