René Redzepi will give the closing keynote at Terroir this year (Image: Sam Friedrich)
The Terroir Symposium is an annual event where chefs, restaurateurs and food writers—as well as hardcore foodie hangers-on—gather for talks, demonstrations and workshops centred around the big trends and issues in the culinary world. The star of the show this year, which takes place on April 8, is René Redzepi, the chef at Copenhagen’s celebrated and influential Noma (which has been repeatedly named the best restaurant in the world). Redzepi will be giving the closing keynote talk on this year’s theme, the stories behind food (expect tales of foraging on frigid Danish beaches).
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Yesterday, the James Beard Foundation 
Remember last year when Chris Cosentino, one of the pioneers of the offal revival, 
Three Canadians earned top prizes this week at the James Beard Foundation Awards, which recognize the stars of the eating and drinking industry. Torontonian Jennifer McLagan snagged the Cookbook of the Year Award for Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes—a volume we mention often because of our mutual appreciation of pork, poultry, beef and lamb fat, as well as other gelatinous delicacies.
The travelling food-writing duo of Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid also walked away with honours. Their sixth book, Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China—a travelogue-cookbook account of culinary culture in China—earned them this year’s International Award. This is the second win for the pair, who took Cookbook of the Year in 1996 for Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas.
