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👋🏾 Hi! I am María José.
I am a Colombian Fermenter, Flavour Alchemist & Fungi Specialist | Culinary Innovator | Gastronomy product designer and creator | Food Consultant | Chef | Zero Waste Expert. I am also a graphic designer | Art Director and worked in pubilicity for 7 years.
I run a petite consulting practice and brand is Called MA(間). I offer mentoring and training for restaurants, chefs, startups, and food businesses in preservation techniques and culinary creativity, as well as zero-waste strategies.
I direct and plan food production projects at all scales, and lead projects and teams in food research. I teach workshops, talks, and training sessions on fermentation at all levels.
I am an expert in solid food fermentation with an emphasis on mold and microorganisms.
Based in Barcelona since 2011.
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Contact
📪 [email protected]
🖼 @macondiments
💻 macondiments online
Linkedin: Maria Jose Mantilla
Experience
Senior researcher, R+D Team leader, Novel & alternative functional foods development. MAKEAT.
Head researcher. Barcelona. – (Currently)
- Project planning; test planning and leadership; tastings; and coordination of the production team.
- Design of food protocols, matrixes and mind maps for r+d processes.
- Design and conception of mind maps, processes maps, presentations, graphics and other aids for projects.
- Handling of scheduling, organizational tasks, task managment and selecting personel for research and testing.
- Development of solid-fermentation methods for novel foods
- R&D and research on novel foods: behavior, metabolism, and applications
- Recipe R&D, standardization, production sheets, spore progress sheets, and fermentation test reports.
- Design of HACCP processes for operations.
Be resilient European initiative: Makeat + ODS protein & MA (間) CONSULTING
Head researcher and solid fermentation specialist, Barcelona. – (Jul 2024 - Mar 2025)
- Project planning; test planning and leadership; tastings; and coordination of the production team.
- Design of food protocols, matrixes and mind maps for r+d processes.
- Design and conception of mind maps, processes maps, presentations, graphics and other aids for projects.
- Development of a solid fermentation protocol, biomass and method for industrial waste.
- R&D and research on six Asian food molds varieties: behavior, metabolism and resulting products.
- R&D of recipes, standardization, production sheets, spore progress sheets, and fermentation test reports