Empty Bowls: Online Edition
The Gardiner Museum brings together people of all ages and backgrounds through the shared values of creativity, wonder, and community that clay and ceramic traditions inspire.
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Empty Bowls: Online Edition
March 3, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tickets are PWYC, starting at $10.
All proceeds go to Anishnawbe Health Toronto.
For over 25 years, the Gardiner Museum and Anishnawbe Health Toronto have partnered to host Empty Bowls, a North American-wide project to aid people experiencing homelessness. All of the proceeds go to Anishnawbe Health Toronto, a culture-based Indigenous Health Centre committed to changing lives through traditional healing practices. To date, the Gardiner Museum has raised over $200,000 in support of Anishnawbe Health Toronto.
This year, Empty Bowls is going virtual with the help of Chef Joseph Shawana and The Food Dudes! Chef Shawana, who is Odawa, part of the Three Fires Confederacy, combines his classical French training and Indigenous background to create innovative Native American cuisine.
Join us for an online cooking demonstration with Chef Shawana, who will be streaming live from the Gardiner Museum kitchen as he makes Smoked Trout and Sweet Potato Chowder with Sea Truffle. We’ll send you the recipe and a list of ingredients in advance so you can follow along and recreate the soup at home.
Chef Shawana will be joined by Bianca Azupardo, Head Chef at Clay Restaurant.
ABOUT CHEF JOSEPH SHAWANA
Acclaimed Chef Joseph Shawana is Odawa, part of the Three Fires Confederacy. Born and raised in Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve located on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Joseph was brought up knowing that food is life. Starting in the kitchen at the early age of 13, he learned from his mother, who had learned from hers, and quickly fell in love with authentic indigenous cuisine and the way it brings people together.
His classical French training and Aboriginal background combine to create authentic, Native American cuisine executed with world-class culinary technique; full of flavour and never compromising quality over quantity.
Currently, a professor and the Indigenous culinary advisor at Ontario’s Centennial College, Joseph is committed to furthering culinary education in all communities and providing hands-on experience to Indigenous youth by inviting them to work alongside chefs and learn valuable industry applications for sustained development.
As the force behind the high-end Indigenous restaurant, Kūkŭm Kitchen, which won the ‘Best World Cuisine” award in 2019, he is acclaimed for his unique experiments with traditional Indigenous ingredients, many of them wild, including fir tips, sweet-grass, and seal.
Chef Shawana is currently the chair of ICAN, the Indigenous Culinary of Associated Nations. Under his leadership and guidance, ICAN is dedicated to breaking barriers and sharing Indigenous food, culinary and cultural experiences from across Canada with the world.
He was named on the list of Top Ten Chefs of Ontario and has received rave reviews in the New York Times, Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and Food & Wine, to name a few. He is also in great company on Air Canada’s top 20 restaurants in Canada for 2019 and is a sought-after voice on the emergence of Indigenous culinary around the globe.
ABOUT CHEF BIANCA AZUPARDO
Chef Bianca Azupardo has been honing her skills at some of Toronto’s greatest restaurants. While studying at George Brown’s Culinary Arts & Chef Training, she continued her own development by working her way up through Toronto institutions like O&B Restaurants and The Distillery Group before joining The Food Dudes.
Today, Chef Bianca brings warmth and simplicity to the restaurant offerings at Clay. She is inspired to create dishes that are familiar, while also bringing something new to the table. Her dishes highlight locally sourced ingredients in a creative yet accessible ways that match Clay’s open and inviting interior.
ABOUT ANISHNAWBE HEALTH TORONTO
Anishnawbe Health Toronto is a fully accredited Community Health Centre in downtown Toronto. Its mission is to improve the health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in spirit, mind, emotion and body, by providing traditional healing within a multi-disciplinary health care model. Since 1987, Anishnawbe Health Toronto has been the only provider of western medical services and traditional healing services to a rapidly growing, urban Indigenous community.
Click here to make an additional donation directly to Anishnawbe Health.
