Beforethe start of the 1999 IFT Annual Meeting, Kerry Ingredients, Beloit, Wis., held a media event at Charlie Trotter’s, a four-star restaurant in Chicago. During that evening, food editors (I included) had the opportunity to experience a wide range of complex, flavor combinations, such as olive-oil-poached Scottish salmon with caviar and grapefruit, chilled sweet corn soup with mussels, preserved cucumber and sorrel puree, whole roasted squab with herb-infused risotto, celery and lemon-mint so…