Listen and read Arlene Stein's talk: #noborders: Food as a tool for diplomacy in full, as spoke at Food on the Edge 2019 hosted in Galway City, Ireland.
“If someone asks you where you’re from. How would you define your sense of place?”
Using gastrodiplomacy to build international communities
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.
Norwegian Gastronomy: A Sense of Place
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.
What is Terroir?
Terroir is most notability defined through our foodways. The meals we share tell the story of our identity, so that what we eat can define who we are. When we examine food cultures through their regions we’re afforded a perspective into the past and a glimpse of the future through the ingredients, techniques and traditions at work. There is no constant, only a momentary look at the migration of people and their landscape.