The restaurant kitchen where everyone has HIV: 'We want to challenge stigma'
A Toronto pop-up is the first of its kind anywhere, and was born out of a recent poll suggesting many still fear sharing food with someone HIV positive
by Ashifa Kassam in Toronto
Nov 08, 2017
3 minutes
Until recently, few of the chefs had ever set foot in a restaurant kitchen. Now they were slicing up hunks of skirt steak and gently coaxing pomegranate seeds out of their peels as they readied an elaborate four-course dinner for more than 100 patrons.
The 14-person team was working to open June’s, a unique pop-up restaurant in Toronto that is the world’s first eatery in which all of the kitchen staff are HIV positive.
“We really wanted to be able to challenge the stigma that still exists around HIV,” said Joanne Simons of Casey House, The idea of
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