About the Intrepid Culinologist

Rachel Zemser, MS, CCS is a food industry consultant who has one foot planted in the artisan soils of San Francisco and the other buried deep in the world of R&D, manufacturing and food science. She has a B.S. and M.S. in Food Science, a Culinary Arts degree, and almost 15 years of food-industry experience.Latest Tweets
- Grocery Shopping in Philadelphia: The Whole Foods Problem | The Philly Post http://t.co/8vCEY4dC 10 hours ago
- tomorrow I will make kefta, a meatball made with lamb and @cawalnuts from Turkey and I am making @cawalut milk tonight with my soy machine! 2 days ago
- today I made my vegan dehydrated kale chips w/ @cawalnuts and red pepper, yeast extract and tahini- delicious-12 hrs in the dehydrator 105F 2 days ago
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REPORTING #LIVE FROM @BEARDFOUNDATION #JBFA #awards!
I may not have been going to the beard awards for the past 13 years like @foodwriterdiary has- but I do agree that the press room even in the past three years has gotten crazy crowded. Hey @BeardFoundation, … Continue reading
Video: Beard Awards Food Safety Interview With Andrew Zimmern May 2010
The James Beard Awards are coming up. Last year I got to chat with Andrew Zimmern about food safety. Who will I speak to this year on the red carpet???
Posted in Food Safety, James Beard Awards, Videos
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Walnut Based Sauces-All The Rage!!!
It’s official! Spain has been deemed the “New France” for foodies, and Spanish gastronomy has become one of the hottest international cuisines in the U.S. It started with the tapas craze in the 1990s, but since then Spanish main … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Development, The Daily Feeding, Walnuts
Tagged culinology, ift, mediterranean sauces, muhamarra, RCA, romesco, walnut sauce, walnuts, walnuts thicken sauce
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Defining Flow -Food Vs Wine
A few years ago I began to read more about wine and realized the only way I would ever understand this topic would be to evaluate it in the only way I know how-scientifically, accurately and repeatively. As I began … Continue reading