MRM Talking With: Bold Food Founder Muffie Fulton

Bold Food teaches the science of cooking and organizes food-focused travel tours. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company was founded in 2015 by Muffie Fulton, an obsessive foodie and former neuroscientist who says her deep scientific knowledge underlies a playful, low-key approach to modernist cooking. Her passion for food began during her childhood in Colorado, where talking about food, trying new restaurants, and concocting recipes with her brother were a way of life. Her other love--science--- would pull her in a different career direction. She studied neuroscience and how the brain works at a molecular level as an undergraduate at Brown University and then enrolled at Stanford University studying neurodegeneration and earning a master’s degree.

Always a voracious reader of cookbooks, Fulton experienced a food epiphany when she picked up a copy of Chef Ferran Adria’s book, "A Day at elBulli," which made her realize how much overlap there was between what…