My 33-year involvement with IFT has shaped my career, my development, and my professional network.
It was an unexpected trip to the IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo in 1977 that provided me with a window into food science, and my first industry job at McCormick. Not a week goes by that I don’t recognize how lucky I am to be working in a profession that I love—one that challenges and inspires me, deals with the great, diverse subject of food, and allows me to interact with some of the brightest mi…