Karon Liu has been a staff food reporter for the Toronto Star since 2015 and aims to link food with culture, history, identity, politics – anything you can imagine. He's also an avid home cook, and his favourite utensil is a pair of wooden chopsticks his grandma used to use.

John Lorinc is a journalist and editor. He reports on urban affairs, politics, business, technology, and local history for a range of media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Walrus, Maclean’s, and Spacing, where he is senior editor. John is the author of three books, including The New City (Penguin, 2006) and Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022), and has coedited four other anthologies for Coach House Books: The Ward (2015), Subdivided (2016), Any Other Way (2017), and The Ward Uncovered (2018). John is the recipient of the 2019/2020 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. He lives in Toronto.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings ToC (tentative)

Introduction

Karon Lui (Toronto Star food writer)

Culinary History

Rick Halpern (historian)

Johl Whiteduck Ringuette (Anishnabek chef)

Jennifer Jordan (historian)

Stuart Sakai (owner, Sakai Bar restaurant)

Amy Rosen (cookbook author)

Julie van Rosendaal (food writer)

Christina Gonzales (freelance writer/editor)

Personal History

Angela Misri (Walrus online director)

Perry King (writer/author)

David Buchbinder (musician)

Sylvia Putz (freelance writer)

Mekhala Chaubal (lawyer)

Tatum Taylor Chaubal (heritage planner)

Chantal Braganza (editor)

Domenica Marchetti (food writer/chef)

Arlene Chan (historian)

Nam Kiwanuka (The Agenda host)

Eric Geringras (TV producer)

Miles Morrisseau (reporter/radio producer)

Michal Stein (freelance writer)

Cultural History

Naomi Duguid (cookbook author)

Cheryl Thompson (historian/cultural commentator)

Navneet Alang (tech-food columnist)

Kristen Arnett (novelist)

Marie Campbell (literary agent)

Matthew Murtagh-Wu (dumpling entrepreneur)

Conclusion

John Lorinc (freelance journalist/editor)