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“Food scientists can sometimes get a bad rap, and don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of Frankenfood out there,” said food scientist and industry veteran Jeni Ellick, founder and CEO of Artisan Row.

Before joining the Southern quick-service chain Chick-fil-A a little more than nine years ago, Shona Jonson had parlayed an early culinary interest into a career not as common as many imagined by ...