Hendrik (“Enrique”) Varju is of Mexican and Hungarian heritage, his mother born in Guadalajara and his father in Budapest. He spent his childhood cooking and baking with his mother. He has been running cooking seminars and classes since 2007, specializing in the Mexican and Hungarian food he grew up cooking and enjoying. He also runs private cooking classes, as well as classes for cooking schools like PC Cooking School (Superstore, Loblaws, Zehrs) and the Loft Cooking School (Longo’s).

You can see numerous photographs of Hendrik’s dishes at www.passionforwood.com/cooking. To receive regular notices of classes Hendrik is teaching in and around the GTA, you can contact him at [email protected]. Hendrik is also a fine furniture designer/builder and woodworking instructor, so he runs two businesses: “Passion for Wood” & “Passion for Food”.

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Hendrik “Enrique” Varju
[email protected]