A Toronto woman is going viral after sharing a video of herself serving free food to passengers on a TTC subway.
nowtoronto.com
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Izzy Petraglia tells Now Toronto that she was the mastermind behind the operation, one that was sparked after she saw a similar video on social media during American thanksgiving last November.
Petraglia, who has spent the past few years developing a passion for cooking and perfecting her craft, says she wanted to use the idea to help share recipes from a cook book she’s been working on.
“Culturally, at the forefront of every background- everyone comes together for food. So, that was just a really big thing for me, I wanted to just bring the community on the subway,” she said.
Items on the menu included spicy miso cucumber salad, Pancit Bihon, sweet and spicy tofu and broccoli with homemade hot honey, slow cooked pineapple brown sugar, and crowd favorite ube white chocolate cookies.
“I made 100 of them, and they were cleared out, practically everything I made was cleared out,” she said.
“People were honestly just happy to see it, even if they didn’t take food,” she said.
According to Petragali, cleanliness and sanitization was top of mind when preparing and also serving the food, that includes regularly sanitizing hands, having hand sanitizer on deck for passengers, and mostly serving food instead of letting people take it themselves. In addition to being clean, safety was top of mind and flyers were handed out with a full list of ingredients for anyone with allergies.
