How Middle Eastern food is revitalizing Toronto’s Kensington Market [Globe & Mail]
How Middle Eastern food is revitalizing Toronto’s Kensington Market [Globe & Mail]
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> Kensington itself, a place with a reverence for difference, distils what these women are trying to give their customers: the comfort and freedom of belonging. > > “I feel right at home, actually, here in Kensington,” says Aksu, who chats every day with people from the four other Turkish businesses in the market. Here, she says, in contrast to experiences she had while travelling in Europe, “I don’t feel like I’m a stranger.” > > > > Commentators decrying change in Kensington sometimes mourn versions of the neighbourhood they remember from the nineties or eighties or seventies or sixties, depending on their own vintage. But the market, from its Yiddish beginnings to its Portuguese, Latin American, Caribbean and now Middle Eastern adoptions, is actually continuing the habit that has always defined it: offering a starting place and an eager audience to immigrants carrying their traditions to Toronto. > > “The neighbourhood is welcoming to all cultures,” Rezaei explains. “So you feel like, if I start something here, bring my background, bring my culture, bring the things I like here, people are going to like it.”
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Eat Nabati is refreshingly delicious and the people who work there are lovely!
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> Kensington itself, a place with a reverence for difference, distils what these women are trying to give their customers: the comfort and freedom of belonging.
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> “I feel right at home, actually, here in Kensington,” says Aksu, who chats every day with people from the four other Turkish businesses in the market. Here, she says, in contrast to experiences she had while travelling in Europe, “I don’t feel like I’m a stranger.”
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> Commentators decrying change in Kensington sometimes mourn versions of the neighbourhood they remember from the nineties or eighties or seventies or sixties, depending on their own vintage. But the market, from its Yiddish beginnings to its Portuguese, Latin American, Caribbean and now Middle Eastern adoptions, is actually continuing the habit that has always defined it: offering a starting place and an eager audience to immigrants carrying their traditions to Toronto.
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> “The neighbourhood is welcoming to all cultures,” Rezaei explains. “So you feel like, if I start something here, bring my background, bring my culture, bring the things I like here, people are going to like it.”
Eat Nabati is refreshingly delicious and the people who work there are lovely!