Ken Burgin

Short video honours the hard work of Kitchen Hands…

This Canadian documentary spends time with the kitchen hands at several Montreal restaurants, highlighting the fast, heavy and relentless pace of their work.

Without them there are no clean plates, no pans for chefs to cook with, no clean floors or cutlery for the table. It’s a job often done by people of colour and the marginalised, showing how the hierarchy still works in manual labour. We say we ‘couldn’t live without them’, but they’re rarely given a proper uniform or a bearable, efficient work space. Ever worked in one of those plastic aprons in a hot space? It’s tough.

The video gives an unflinching view of this hard labour, and the humanity of the people who do it…

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