Some families vacation at the beach. Ours follows the water.

Ian grew up fishing Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. It was the kind of childhood where the fish you caught was the fish you ate. Lauren spent weeks every summer on Spain's Costa del Sol from the time she was young, going to fish markets in Marbella, eating lunch on the beach, and having long dinners that lasted well into the night.

When we started travelling together, we noticed a pattern: we kept ending up at the sea. Iceland, four times. Portugal. Bermuda. England's coastlines. Canada's Atlantic shore. It wasn't planned. It's just where we wanted to be.

And we brought our kids. They've been coming with us since they were five and seven years old — watching fishermen haul nets in Reykjavik, browsing conserva tins in Portuguese markets, eating sardines on paper plates in the sun. They're growing up the way we did, with the ocean nearby, and the understanding that the simplest food, made with real care, is the best food there is.

Tide & Tin is what we built so we could bring that home. Every tin we carry comes from a coast we've stood on, a producer we trust, and a tradition worth preserving.