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An expert panel consisting of chefs, sommeliers, and food and beverage professionals has evaluated the entries for Product of the Year 2026. Following extensive tastings and professional assessments, three products have been nominated in each category. The winners will be announced during the opening ceremony of the Trøndelag Food Festival and the Trondheim Beer Festival on August 6. »

Årets Kokk candidate Eli Anne Sundset is the Festival Chef at Trøndersk Matfestival 2025 and will be on stage all Friday to deliver an exciting, flavorful, and educational stage show. »

The GRASS CEILING-project is now half way in its course. The fifth Living Lab gathering takes place this Thursday, when a selection of women rural entrepreneurs meet to share of their experiences to be heard all the way to EU- decision making level. »

Pastry chef Marthe Kilen is busy on Norwegian TV these days, as Saturday night prime time airs the Norwegian version of The Great British Bake Off. Here she gets to judge all things cake and pastry. But what she's really busy at, is taking her business to the next level. »

At Munkeby Mariakloster in Levanger in Trøndelag, several hundred washed-rind cheese are turned every day. It is work that frees the mind. It is also work that brings the monks to the World Cheese Awards, in 2023 in Trondheim. »

Is it possible to be a gothic industrial electronica DJ and make cheese on a farm dating back to the 1500s? Absolutely. At Hindrum Dairy Farm cows and cheesemakers join together in the hillside overlooking the Trondheim Fjord. »

Living Lab-participant and rural woman innovator Kari Øye presented her business Havfruene Mermaids for GRASS CEILING project managers and European Commission representatives for the annual showcase in Brussels. »

Trondheim-based brewery E.C. Dahls Brewery went all the way to the top in The European Beer Star Awards 2021. Among 2395 beers from 44 countries, 130 international beer experts chose Kong Vinter (‘King Winter’) for gold in the category German Style Dunkler Bock. »

For Trondheim Brewery Festival July 29-31 Stolt Brewery is bringing beer with smoky malt beer traditions that are over a thousand years old. »

Just like the locally sourced ingredients of Trondelag become the world's best in hardy weather conditions our Trondelag Food Festival chef Christopher William Davidsen has weathered his challenges to become one of the world's best chefs. »

The funds Trondheim Brewery Festival is receiving as part of the Covid Compensation Act in Trondheim Municipality makes it possible to create an event with all the necessary Covid regulations the weekend of July 29-31. Mayor Rita Ottervik says the festival is especially important for small and medium-sized businesses. »

At Trondheim Brewery Festival July 29-31 you can taste the brew of kings and gods; mead. Mjøderiet from Bergen is Norway's first meadery. »

The longing for nature got to be too strong. That's why Ane quit her office job and started foraging wild edible plants for Michelin restaurants. In the forests of Inderøya Ane and her partner have created glamping and workshops to attract city dwellers into nature. »

One of the oldest breweries in Norway, EC Dahls, received gold medal in European Beer Challenge for their beer E.C. Dahls Gullvåg. It’s a beer that tells the story of world travel, world-renowned art, and world-class beer brewing »

Recently two of Trondheim's restaurants have gotten distinguished attention. Le Bistro in Trondheim is named the country's best bistro and Speilsalen in Britannia Hotel is awarded Norway's Restaurant of the Year 2020. »

Cured reindeer heart served on blinis, potato waffle with reindeer tongue and sea buckthorn sauce. Reindeer meat stew, lingonberry cream and coffee made on the fire! The Trøndelag food culture is inherently also Sami food culture, and at Halsen Middle School in Stjørdal the Trøndelag Food Manifesto Day was celebrated in the outdoors in -12 degrees Celsius. »

Blue Congo from Overhalla, almond potatoes from Kvikne, red Asterix and yellow sweet potato are among the local colorfoul potatoes that 5-year-olds from Trondheim-Trøndelag, awarded European Region of Gastronomy 2022 by IGCAT, got to know and cook during the ØKOUKA (EcoWeek), held on 18-27 September 2020. »