Kitchen Smarts
Kitchen Smarts is a fresh new podcast hosted by Hava Volterra, co-founder and CEO of Parsley Software. Each episode features insightful conversations with chefs, food innovators, and culinary thinkers exploring the intersection of art and business in kitchen operations. Whether you're a home cook or a food professional, Kitchen Smarts serves up inspiration, insights, and stories from the heart of the culinary world.
Kitchen Smarts
From Salmon Cakes to Plastics: Scaling Recipes with a Chemical Engineer
In this debut episode of Kitchen Smarts, Hava Volterra—CEO of Parsley Software, chef and engineer —sits down with her husband, Richard Pieters. With over 30 years of experience in the chemical and biotechnology industries, Richard brings an unexpected but fascinating perspective to the science of scaling recipes —both in food and in industrial manufacturing.
Together, they explore how smart thinking—about ingredients, process, and equipment—can make or break both a dinner recipe and a manufacturing run. Whether you're scaling up a salmon cake recipe or engineering the next eco-friendly compound, this conversation serves up insight, humor, and a fresh perspective on what it really means to cook with smarts.
Guest: Richard Pieters
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Hosted by: Hava Volterra, CEO & co-founder of Parsley Software
Kitchen Smarts is a production of Stereoknife.
Artwork by Dennis Mukai
Music by Brandon McCulloch