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Graduate students Danielle Heaney and April Huang pose with cucumbers they are preparing for research at the High Pressure Processing Validation Center.

Field Note

Danielle Heaney: Producing the perfect pickle
Danielle Heaney, a graduate student in the lab of Olga Padilla-Zakour, interim director of Cornell AgriTech and director of the Cornell Food Venture Center (CFVC), has been working to improve an American consumer favorite: pickles. Collaborating...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
  • Food Science
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News

In Amish-Chinese partnership, shiitake mushrooms are the main ingredient

With Cornell's help, an Amish farmer grows shiitake mushrooms and solves his financial woes, and an entrepreneur and a chef, both from China, use the mushrooms for a sauce that is now on the market.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Spotlight

How Cornell is helping grow Edenesque's plant-based milk empire
Leslie Woodward founded Edenesque with the same mantra she followed during her two-decade career as a chef in some of New York’s finest restaurants – source ingredients locally and make high-quality foods that are delicious and good for you...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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