On December 2nd, the Embassy of Lebanon hosted an event featuring Lebanese food and wine for potential business customers. The event was funded by the US State Department Middle East Partnerships Initiative program focusing on developing markets for businesses in Lebanon. By shedding light on the richness and uniqueness of Lebanon’s culinary heritage, the aim is to provide concrete opportunities for Lebanese agri-food companies to expand into the US and increase exports.

Among those attending were Lebanese producers of QOOT Cluster, the first Lebanese agri-food consortium that brings together Lebanese enterprises, rising SMEs, multinational companies, knowledge providers, support institutions, and investment entities to collaboratively catalyze and innovate the agri-food sector in Lebanon. Currently, QOOT Cluster includes more than 70 members of innovative companies. Members consist of small, medium, and large enterprises dealing in food production, input supplies, processing, distribution, marketing, technology, and retail, among other verticals.

 We highly recommend that you contact the producers of these fine products to learn more about how you can source Lebanese products.

As a service to our readers, I sampled all of the above and six different wines and promise that you will find excellence at hand. More information is coming from the coordinators shortly. 

The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the American Task Force on Lebanon.