THUNDER BAY – The Tapestry Woman’s Network held an ethnic food picnic on Saturday which saw food from all over the world brought together at Roots to Harvest.
This was the second year that the picnic was able to be held, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite the chance of rain forecasted for this weekend, Tapestry Women’s Network co-leader, Roopa Rakshit said that over 30 booths still came out to share their cultures.
“Food from all over the world,” she said. “And we also have henna and face painting and a yard sale, there's a festival happening here and we're celebrating food while also celebrating friendship across borders.”
Laura Fralick, co-leader, Tapestry Women's Network, said that the event was also an opportunity for non-commercial chefs to show what they have to offer.
“They're all health unit inspected, etc,” she said. “But yeah, it's amazing the amount of food here and there's things here you can't get in stores or anything in Thunder Bay.”
Rakshit said that she’s very glad to see Thunder Bay lean into the purpose of the Tapestry Women’s Network, which is to get networking and sharing cultures through friendship.
“We're very, very grateful to the Thunder Bay community,” she said. “They've come in support of the noncommercial home-chefs and they're trying out different kinds of cuisines and that makes us feel so nice, it feels very good.”
Alongside the picnic was a community garage sale which helped to raise funds that will go to help Thunder Bay in various ways according to Rakshit.
“Whatever money we raise, it goes back to the community,” she said. “If not in this event, at the end of the year in December, we do a gala dinner and we identify charities from the community and we make donations, so everything goes back to the community”
With Files from TBT News
