Cofounder, Chief Sustainability Officer at Seminalia - Atlanta, Georgia, United States
At Seminalia, we specialize in American truffles. Co-founders Vincent and Camille have spent the past decade in the culinary industry, in three Michelin starred restaurants and James Beard winning kitchens and dining rooms, growing a deep love and knowledge of truffles and the story of the foragers and farmers who pull them from the earth. But we're not resting on our laurels to have a company. We've started a company to be the catalyst for an industry. We firmly believe that domestic American truffles truly rival their European counterparts. We're not settling for less, selling you short, or bringing snake oil to your back door. That'd be weird. Seminalia is dedicated to bringing truffles sourced from truffiere orchards and wild forest lands across the United States to the restaurants of the US. Our company is rigorously driven by an environmental focus and commitment to sustainability and sees this as a moral responsibility to our earth, and the next generation.We work under the most sustainable means, backed by science. We're talking hound found and ethically sourced, sustainable harvesting when foraging, ecosystems management, carbon neutral shipping, and full transparency. Being ‘eco-conscious' or ‘honest' isn't good enough for us. This isn't just another business using the hottest buzzwords for marketing. We're not going to settle with a zero-carbon footprint. Our mission is to have a negative-carbon footprint by 2021.