Evan Hanczor

Tables of Contents is a home for significant, surprising, joyful, honest, and delicious gatherings and conversations at the intersections of food, arts, and culture. We open new entry points for discussions that matter, catalyze connections between individuals via the vulnerability of the table, and help create and champion art and media that is grounded, diverse, and visionary.

A dish from Tables of Contents Reading Series inspired by Katie Kitamura's INTIMACIES, October 2021

Evan Hanczor is the founder of Tables of Contents (TOC), a home for significant, surprising, joyful, honest, and delicious gatherings and conversations at the intersections of food, arts, and culture. As the longtime chef of Brooklyn’s Egg restaurant, Evan is a leading voice in the American culinary landscape, exemplifying that restaurants can and should put equity, employees, sustainability, community, and advocacy at the center of their work. A former poet constantly struggling to remain “a writer”, Evan is also a co-director of FIG and is constantly engaged in food and social justice issues with organizations ranging from One Fair Wage to OXFAM. He is the co-author of the cookbook Breakfast: Recipes to Wake Up For with Egg founder George Weld, and is the editor of the Tables of Contents Community Cookbook, named one of the best cookbooks of 2021 by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair