CuliNex, the country’s top clean label product development consultancy, is pleased to announce the promotion of Lesley Werblin to senior culinologist.
Back in the early 1930s, when Charles Elmer Doolin started The Frito Company and Herman Lay started H.W. Lay & Company, they were establishing the groundwork for a snack empire. The two companies merged in 1961, and four years later joined forces with The Pepsi-Cola Company to create PepsiCo, which operates Frito-Lay as a subsidiary.
Today’s snack and bakery market remains as fiercely competitive as ever. The definition of what constitutes a “snack” is tracking an evolutionary course, shifting in step with consumer trends and desires.
Stephen Kalil, corporate executive research chef at Frito-Lay, looks at some Latin American culinary trends and select sources of flavorful inspiration.
