Emily Zimmerman walked into the Depanneur about two weeks after it first opened and proposed a schmancy vegan pop-up dinner. From there she quickly became one of the O.G. Depanneers, teaching classes, running a weekly PWYC dinner, supporting other chefs, contributing to the award-winning Depanneur Cookbook, and hosting many, many fabulous dinner parties.
This dinner marks a double celebration. It’s the fifteenth anniversary of Emily’s first Depanneur Supper Club, and a chance for her to use the 10+ years of intervening experience to revisit and revamp that menu into a collection of plant-based 'greatest hits' and a true delight for the senses. It’s also the launch of Emily's new culinary and performance project, Spicebox, which will produce events that combine delicious food, subversively sexy stage acts, and sly political art and organizing. Let’s repair the world, deliciously.
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Chilled Autumn Green Borscht
A creamy, lemony soup of chard, spinach, and wood sorrel, thickened with potatoes and arrowroot, served with coconut yogurt.
Sea & Salt
Eggplant “caviar”, jackfruit “whitefish” salad, salt-baked carrot lox, everything bagel pita chips.
Salad
Rainbow Root Salad: julienned carrot, celeriac, and beet, in an apple-tarragon aioli, topped with toasted pumpkin seeds.
Sausage
Homemade apple-and-sage seitan sausages, crispy tofu “duck”, and Emily’s notorious vegan chopped liver, with sumac mustard and pickled tomatoes.
Sweet
Spicebox Au Chocolat: creamy dark chocolate custard, spiced with cardamom, cloves, and ginger, topped with dried and candied fruit and nuts.
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Emily Zimmerman is a chef, community worker, food justice activist, cooking up deluxe, delicious vegan dishes and retro comfort food like whoah. She can be found at food events around the city and at The Depanneur hosting the occasional vegan Supper Club or Workshop. She comes from a large family of loudmouthed, pinko-commie, Brooklyn Jews, who relocated to Toronto 50 years ago, but still root for the Mets. She’s also occasionally appears on the cabaret circuit as ‘Goldie Luxemburg’, Toronto’s Yenta of Burlesque.
@goldieluxemburg | @spiceboxsoirees
