Culinary Innovation in Pea Protein with Ian Heieie
About the Webinar.
Please join us Wednesday, May 29th at 10:00am (CDT) for our "Pulse Potential" webinar series! This webinar series focuses on providing education on pulse production and its uses to increase demand and farmer’s desire to grow pulses. Topics throughout the series include uses and benefits of pulses, trends & innovations, market drivers, and the path from producer to the processor. A new speaker will be featured each month.
This month will feature Ian Heieie, Research Chef at PURIS. Join us as Ian presents on Culinary Innovation in Pea Protein, which will highlight the trials and tribulations of plant protein analogues, culinary applications for simple ingredients, and new PURIS products.
So, mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss this webinar!
About the Speaker.
Ian Heieie | PURIS
Ian Heieie is a Minneapolis-based chef specializing in local, sustainable, and craveable food. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Mendota Heights in 2011, he worked for James Beard Award-winning Paul Berglund at The Bachelor Farmer. There he learned the importance of working with local farmers and techniques for elevating humble ingredients. In 2017, he began to work at Young Joni in Northeast as Executive Chef for another James Beard Award-winning chef, Ann Kim. There he developed a dynamic kimchi program that paid homage to traditional Korean techniques and worked to optimize the pizza dough process. In 2020, Ian returned to school to pursue a bachelor’s degree in food science at the University of Minnesota. While at school, he worked at the Plant Protein Innovation Center, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to studying plant and alternative proteins, as a research specialist. He graduated from the U of M in December 2023. After this experience, he became the first-ever Research Chef at PURIS, where he has developed a passion for broadening the culinary landscape in the plant-based market by leveraging his fine dining and science backgrounds towards a new and delicious future.
How to Register.
Registration for this event is free of charge, and open to the public. Please click the button below to register for this event.
Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed during the series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of the Northern Crops Institute and its employees.
General Information.
Northern Crops Institute
NDSU Dept. 7400
P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050 USA
Phone: 701-231-7736
Email: nci@ndsu.edu
Website: www.northern-crops.com
About the Northern Crops Institute.
Northern Crops Institute is an international center for meeting and learning about crops produced in the four-state region of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Situated on the campus of North Dakota State University, Northern Crops Institute exists as a forum to bring together customers, commodity traders, technical experts, processors and producers from all points of the globe for discussion, education and technical service programs. Since 1983, the Institute has hosted visitors from more than 135 countries.
North Dakota State University is an Equal Opportunity Institution. This publication will be made available in alternative formats upon request (701-231-7736).