My Food Job Rocks!

Today we have Marie Wright, President, Creation, Design & Development and Chief Global Flavorist at ADM Nutrition That’s a long title, but Marie knows literally everything I just mentioned. I think the best part about Marie is just how easy it is to talk to her about the complex world of flavors. The bulk of the interview is a break down on how we as food scientists collaborate to talk about what flavors we want in our products and the best practices to convey this information effectively. The best way to do this is to perhaps meet with them face to face which in our current climate is a bit hard, but we go through a lot of strategies. Marie resonates a sort of raw passion when it comes flavors and it shows in how driven she was in her career and how she doesn’t let the corporate ladder drive her for doing good work so we have a great discussion about this and about the reputation you have in the industry might actually matter more than the title you get. We also get into a bit of interesting talk about f