Conversations with Chef Greg Grisanti are always fun. A previous guest of the podcast, Chef Greg returned to the show to talk about best practices in research chef work and how the work compares to restaurant cooking. From restaurant work to cleaning up labels at quick service restaurants, Chef Greg has seen lots of different…

While Chef Greg and I were wrapping up our podcast recording, we started talking about next year’s Research Chefs Association conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Turns out, Chef is from Louisville, so he shares some insights about the city and gets us really excited about visiting the conference. Listen to the full episode next week, but…

Inspected, safe kitchens scaled for commercial use (bigger stoves, refrigerators, etc) are required to prepare food consistently and safely, but if you’re newer to the business or too small for a full-scale co-packer, where do you turn? Rachael Miller joins us on the podcast to tell us about The Food Corridor, a business incubator that connects…

Research Chef Chris McAdams is a talented voice in the RCA and culinology world and shares his knowledge through Culinary Culture, a consultancy in Austin, Tx.  Culinary Culture is a group of passionate research chefs who offer consulting services for food-based businesses. Through trend research, innovative ideation, and unsurpassed industry experience, Culinary Culture delivers imaginative,…

Research Chef Chris McAdams is a talented voice in the RCA and culinology world. As a writer for various sites, including the RCA student committee’s The Culinologist and Culinary Culture’s blogs, Chris uses every dining out and experience to share with the readers. Chris has followed a crazy pathway to his R&D career, from the…

I’ve been off-air for two weeks, and thank you for sticking around! Chef Matthew Raiford was the keynote speaker for the 2018 Research Chefs Association Conference, and he spoke about diversity, service, acknowledging our histories (including the parts we aren’t proud of), and the future of the culinary world, including the research world. He owns…

Food technologist Andrea Zeng and I worked together as the product development team at Lundberg Family Farms renovating their snack line, creating new rice meal kits, and developing frozen items for them. Andrea has since moved into chocolate product research and development, drawing on her time managing the Cal Poly Chocolates Food and Nutrition Science…