Interviews Archive

04 December

Starting the Conversation: An Interview with Maria Velissariou, Chief Scientific Officer at IFT (Part 1)

By: Amanda Sia, Abbie Sommer and Mackenzie Hannum Featured Image by Pickwriters As a young girl in Greece, Maria Velissariou never imagined she would end up as Vice President for PepsiCo Nutrition R&D with responsibility for global grains, dairy and...

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23 October

The Language of Food

By: Alex Pierce-Feldmeyer Kitchen Theory (KT) is a lot like a world-class athlete: extremely talented, detail-oriented, awe-inspiring and eager to learn. Kitchen Theory is a design studio with a chef’s table and a research laboratory. Kitchen Theory also serves...

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24 July

A Conversation with Dr. Kara Hoover On Uncovering the Evolution of Our Sense of Smell

By: Alex Pierce-Feldmeyer “I have a lot of happy smell memories. I suppose an abiding one is pipe smoke… I associate that to summers in West Virginia, my grandfather taking me on long walks along the railway. Sometimes my...

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08 May

One Hand-Packed Pint at a Time: An Interview with Bob Graeter, Vice President and Owner, Graeter’s Manufacturing Co.

BY: MACKENZIE HANNUM & ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER Many of us have a memory of convincing our parents to take us out for ice cream. We would stand with our face and hands on the glass window case, admiring all the...

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03 April

An Interview with Kieran Westlake, President of Australia’s Specialty Coffee Association

BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER Being from the United States, I felt that the voice of Science Meets Food needed to explore more global regions and their eating and drinking culture…even if we can’t physically travel around the world…YET. Enter, Australian...

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06 February

At The Table – Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

BY: PRAVEENA THIRUNATHAN & LILY YANG How did the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) come about? How does this affect the job market of food scientists? What can we look forward to for the future of FSMA? Tune in...

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24 October

An Interview with Mona Wolf, President and CEO of Wolf Group, and a founding member of the Society of Sensory Professionals (SSP).

BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER & MACKENZIE HANNUM How one woman started a sensory consulting business when there was no place for a woman in Corporate America. Where it all started… Mona Wolf grew up in Southern Indiana. She was a...

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26 April

Chew On This!

BY: ALEX PIERCE-FELDMEYER When you really think about it, chewing gum is a very odd invention. We voluntarily and consistently chews to chew on a flavored gum with no intention of swallowing or gaining any nutritive value. Why do...

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17 March

A Chat With..Brian F. Wagner, Food Packaging Division

Name: Brian F. Wagner Job title: Entrepreneur, Visionary, Strategist, Packaging Professional Company: Wags Ventures, LLC IFT Division(s) to which you belong: Food Packaging Division; IFT Cactus Section How did you go about finding your current...

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09 February

A Chat With…Mark Hughes, Marketing & Management Division

Name: Mark Hughes Job title: CEO Company: Anderson Partners Food Ingredient Marketing (APFIM), a full-service, B-to-B marketing communications firm specializing in the global food ingredient industry and the unique marketing needs of food ingredient companies. IFT Division(s) to...

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