WE of IFT

I am writing this column as I enjoy the final hours of my Presidential Suite at the 2010 Annual Meeting & Food Expo in Chicago, and I am pleasantly exhausted. This was a fine event, and I am so proud of what the collective WE of IFT accomplished for ourselves, our profession, and our world.

This Annual Meeting & Food Expo was attended by more than 21,500 people from 72 countries. We offered 115 technical sessions with more than 1,900 technical presentations organized by key topics and cor…