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
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Category Archives: Food Safety
We are all Bacterio Sapians-Whats in your Immune system?
Way back in 1991 my college friends and I drove to Washington DC (a typical college roadtrip). I was not quite a food scientist yet but I knew that Washington was where the F.D. A. lived and it was an … Continue reading
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Balancing Act-The Art of Balancing Flavor and Safety
As a food scientist, I often have to break traditional rules of flavor in order to fit our product into a can, box, plastic tray and pouch. The traditionalist chef inside of me, however, starts protesting loudly when I bend … Continue reading
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