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Aki Kamozawa & H. Alexander Talbot

Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot are the owners of Ideas in Food, LLC, a consulting business based in Levittown, PA. They met in the kitchen at Clio in Boston in 1997 and have been cooking together ever since. Aki and Alex specialize in sharing techniques for creativity with restaurants, food service companies, and home kitchens using modern ingredients, equipment, and innovative approaches to food. The business grew out of their blog, Ideas in Food (www.ideasinfood.com). In addition to their one on one work with individual chefs, they have consulted with companies such as the No. 9 Group in Boston, Fourth Wall Restaurants in New York City, Frito Lay, and Unilever.

Aki and Alex began the website Ideas in Food in December 2004. It began as a digital notebook to record their work in restaurant kitchens. Over the past five years the websites popularity has grown from a cult following of professional chefs into the benchmark for culinary blogs. It is a favorite go to site for chefs and foodies in the know for the combination of creative ideas and illustrative photography.

Aki and Alex have been invited to speak at professional conferences for Star Chefs, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, the Experimental Cuisine Collective, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. They have appeared as guest chefs for three Holland America cruises, leading demonstrations and teaching classes for groups of passengers from12-150. Aki and Alex are often invited to cook guest chef dinners at restaurants and events around the country such as McCrady’s in Charleston, Woodberry kitchen in Baltimore, Elements in Princeton, and Taste3 in Napa Valley.

The pair writes for Popular Science online. Their column is titled Kitchen Alchemy and focuses on scientific explorations in the kitchen. Aki and Alex recently published an article about garlic in Sante Magazine in March of 2009. They contributed an essay to the anthology Food and Philosophy, which was published in November, 2007. In addition to this they have been featured in articles for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Food and Wine magazine, Saveur, Sante Magazine, and were highlighted in an interview for Gourmet online.

Aki and Alex appeared in an episode of The Food Detectives on the Food Network demonstrating the uses of liquid nitrogen, which aired in September of 2008. They discussed food science with Michael Colameco for his radio program Food Talk on WOR in New York this past May. They are always open to opportunities to talk food and broaden their culinary horizons with new audiences.