We were so happy to finish off 2019 with a festive gift linking the Terroir community of producers together in one unique offering! In partnership with Berlin's Candide artisan chocolate manufacturer, this holiday box of custom chocolates was made using cacao sourced through direct trade and ingredients sourced directly from Terroir’s network of producers.

Corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, rice, cattle, coffee, sugar, milk, cotton, orange juice - these are just a few of the food items currently being traded on the agricultural market, meaning big businesses must invest in the large scale production of these products in order to continue to feed their demand. In an era where most foodstuffs are fully commodified, we delve deeper into the meaning behind the practice and take a look at its modern-day realities.

What’s in a dish? A plate, bowl, cup; round, square, rectangular, oval, large, small, coloured, solid, printed or plain? Quite a lot as it happens. Plates are so often overlooked but they represent an important connection to our personal terroir. By following the Meissen porcelain story, we took the chance to think about how the serving vessels we use connect us to the world around us.

Gastrodiplomacy is the tool of using food, wine and cuisine as an instrument to create cross-cultural understanding and improve international interactions and cooperation. It can be used to create trans-cultural conversations between societies as well as a platform which promotes peace, willingness and understanding and grows food communities.

At this year’s Terroir Symposium in Toronto, Terroir founder, Arlene Stein, moderated a vital main-stage panel aimed at helping food leaders better understand sustainable seafood procurement by informing an audience of chefs, restaurateurs, farmers and producers on how to make better and more informed buying decisions to ensure a sustainable future for our seas. Check out the panel’s learnings here.

The first thing you should know about Priscillia Occhipinti’s grappa is that it hasn’t won any bronze or silver awards. Oh no. Since taking over the distillery in 2000, Priscilla’s grappa has only ever won gold or double gold medals - over 100 to be exact.

HindsholmGrisen started in 2010 with the goal of making the best quality pork meat in the most natural way. After a decade of cultivating seed and grain crops, Poul and Carla Nielsen introduced pigs to maximize the full potential and biodiversity of their small farm.

The origins of winemaking (and the oldest known form of “natural” winemaking) are to be found in Georgia where, from around 4000BC, the people of the Caucasus mountains discovered that grape juices turned into wine when it left buried throughout the winter in a shallow pit.

Through this short film, Arlene Stein has united Norway's best restaurants, chefs, food experts and innovators in a study of successful food leadership, the importance of terroir, and how food leaders can not just bring the principle to life, but also make it relevant for a new generation of chefs and diners.