New Worlder—The Americas
Chefs with PR teams arrive with talking points. Nephi Craig, an Apache chef running a restaurant that doubles as a cultural recovery and drug rehab project, arrives with something to say. That distinction is the whole philosophy behind Nicholas Gill and Juliana Duque’s New Worlder.
de Terra Madre—Turin
Food Planet Prize awards $2 million annually to food innovations that respect planetary boundaries and support resilient, nourishing global food systems.
de Chinampas & Baldío—Mexico City
Pablo Usobiaga serves as the bridge between ancestral farming knowledge and urban tables, translating centuries-old ecological wisdom into functional restaurant systems.
La Bagatelle—Copenhagen
Malene Malling makes clothing as an act of resistance—each piece sewn by hand, designed to last generations, not seasons.
JLD Knives—Hudson Valley
Jack Dolan carries forward the craft taught by master bladesmith Fingal Ferguson, proving that some knowledge can only be passed hand-to-hand, teacher to student.
Feeding Earth with Flame—Hudson Valley
Bianca Moebius-Clune calls it a reverse apocalypse: we take what would be discarded, branches, bark, the remnants of a forest’s life, and give it a second chance.
Eisvogel—Zürich
Five new flavors every day, no repeats, no menu, just what’s ripe at the market and what memory surfaced that morning.