The Torribera Mediterranean Center, a joint project of the University of Barcelona and The Culinary Institute of America, announces its 3^rd Annual Tomorrow Tastes Mediterranean Conference to be held November 30-December 1, 2022 at the University of Barcelona’s main Historic Building in Barcelona. The conference will once again take up a set of critical issues around health and nutrition, sustainability including biodiversity and the climate crisis, culinary insight and food innovation linked to behavioral change, emerging food business models, and more—all considered from various cross-cultural and cross-sectoral perspectives.

The Tomorrow Tastes Mediterranean (TTM) Conference series is informed by the traditional Mediterranean Diet and its designation as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage—a dietary pattern whose healthfulness is now abundantly supported by several decades of scientific research.  At the same time, this TTM program series is forward-looking—embracing both tradition and innovation—as it explores how the principles, sustainability practices, and food cultures associated with this Mediterranean dietary pattern speak to the urgent, global personal and planetary health challenges of today. 

This year’s TTM Conference will kick-off with our keynote theme, Biodiversity, Health and the Mediterranean Diet:  From Land and Sea to the Professional Kitchen. This lead challenge of biodiversity—considered broadly within the context of the greater Mediterranean region—will allow us to think about sustainability, culture, flavor, and business strategies in concrete ways, at all stages of a full-cycle food system, and empower stakeholders in their efforts to take care of the planet. The third edition of Tomorrow Tastes Mediterranean will explore this and other themes with our invited conference faculty of top scientists and other experts, chefs and other food industry leaders, NGO and government leaders, and cultural authorities from around Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond.