A Letter to Our Friends — Flavor Forays

Hello Flavor Foray Friends,

Travel has been the key to all our exciting adventures and the formation of our new friendships.

Over the past few years, we have enjoyed traveling with you to many of our terrific cities with vibrant food scenes. Together we have met and been inspired by so many passionate chefs, producers, farmers and fishermen, winemakers and distillers along the way.

And now, we’re all temporarily grounded. And more, in many cases. No matter your role in the hospitality business—from front line to supplier—we’re each facing tremendous changes to the way we operate, no matter who we are.

If we’ve learned anything from being with all of you—the best and the brightest in the business—it’s that you are idea builders, creators, and problem solvers. You also know the value of community.

Personally, we’re inspired by what we see happening locally. Restaurants, hotels, bars and businesses in our neighborhoods coming up with ideas to support their hourly workers or take all the food they have in stock and turn it into money making solutions—or possibly charity enterprises.

So we are starting a conversation here. Perhaps some of you have ideas you’d like to share about what it’s possible for a chef, restaurateur, hotelier, travel consultant, caterer to do to navigate these new times. Or perhaps you’d like to just say hello, we’re all in this together. (Heck, you can even vent!). We are, most of all, connectors of people and thought we’d see if collectively we can help each other.

We are sending this letter individually to all of you wonderful friends who have participated in one of our Flavor Forays. In the spirit of community we will also post it on our Flavor Forays Facebook page where it will be possible for anyone to share comments.

Let’s stay strong. We look forward to the day when travel will once again bring our world together, because wow! do we have plans for you.

Warm regards,