WELCOME TO EQUITABLE GOURMET
Across the world, there are many small producers of top quality authentic food products that do not have access to international markets. Often, these producers lack the necessary resources needed to market and sell their products in a sustainable manner.
Equitable Gourmet™ was established to identify such small and medium-sized producers and to link them with buyers of gourmet food products in developed markets.
We believe in our producers and in the quality of our products. Our suppliers are stakeholders in our company and 25% of our profits are redistributed to them. We are dedicated to obtaining the maximum amount of support for them from aid agencies and non-governmental organizations, so that they are able to respond to the growing demand for their products, and share in our company’s success.
Orange Blossom Season |  | 
LEBANON, EARLY MARCH 2010
The beauty of the Sour Orange Orchards around the village of Zakroun in North Lebanon.
I was surprised on my recent trip to Lebanon to experience the site of the early blossoming Sour Orange trees. This has come about due to the unusually warm weather which the country has experienced in ealy March. Despite the resulting rush to pick these beautiful blossoms in time, I enjoyed going around the orchards with our supplier Joseph Menhem who, when I arrived, was frantically calling up crews of laborours at short notice, lest the harvesting season goes to waste. I hope that you enjoy the picture that I managed to capture, and that they portray some of the beaty of rural life in the early Lebanese spring.
Local ladies are hired to pick the flowers before they fully blossom and lose their essential oils. This would make them unsuitable for the distillation process which turns them into the beautiful Orange Blossom Water that we supply you with.
A local farmer brings his harvest to Joseph's facility in the village. The farmers are paid for the weight of their pickings.
Joseph walking me through the orchards as he inspects the picking process.
The end of a long day's work
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