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March 18, 2016
People & Places
Never a dulse moment in this kitchen
Jason Ball develops
food from variety of
exotic ingredients
at innovation center
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Jason Ball is the research chef at Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center in Portland. Ingredients he has experimented with
include dulse, a type of seaweed.
Jason Ball
Who: Research chef at the Food Innovation Center in Portland, a joint
venture of Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of
Agriculture.
Personal: Age 31, originally from Chicago. Worked as a chef there, and in
New York and outside London. Bounced about Europe. Began work at FIC in
January 2015. Lives in Portland.
Best known for so far: Dulse development work. Developing food than can be made from seaweed,
which in turn is grown in tanks, not harvested from the ocean.
All hail vegetables and bread: Finds cooking meat and fi sh “somewhat easy” and thinks vegetables
are more interesting. Enjoys baking bread, especially natural yeast sourdough. “Honestly, warm bread
(out of the oven — with butter and salt) is one of my favorite things to eat — so simple, yet so deli-
cious,” he says by email.
His choice for an Oregon breakfast: A frittata with kale sprouts, heritage farm cheese, green garlic,
chili fl akes and potatoes, probably garnished with herbs and fl owers. On the side he’d have a salad of
mixed chicories, hazelnuts, herbs and tahini dressing. Fresh bread and coffee, as well.
When not cooking: Can most often be found at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty in North Portland, which he says has
the best pizza and ice cream. Ever. “Hands down my favorite restaurant in Portland, maybe even the
world,” he says.
vation Center.
He was snacking on a
dulse ice cream sandwich as
he emailed then-center Di-
rector Michael Morrisey and
FIC Product Development
Manager Sarah Masoni to
ask about the position.
He made sure to men-
tion his snack choice; he got
the job and started about 14
months ago.
The first commercial
product to come from Ball’s
FIC work is a dulse seaweed
salad dressing and marinade,
sold at New Seasons stores
in the Portland area.
Ball enjoys the challenge
of developing products that
are “less luxurious or ap-
pealing.” It’s easy to make
lobster or steak taste good,
he said, but seaweed?
“I like to say that I am an
equal opportunity cook — I
don’t discriminate against
ingredients,” Ball said by
email. “Why can’t we ap-
proach all ingredients with
that excitement and enthusi-
asm?”
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the Owyhee Canyonlands.
The vast and rugged area
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By ERIC MORTENSON
PORTLAND — Jason
Ball has an unusual job at
an unusual place. He’s the
research chef at the Food In-
novation Center in Portland,
which itself is a joint venture
of Oregon State University’s
College of Agricultural Sci-
ences and the state Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
The FIC was among the
first in the U.S. Ball believes
his position is still somewhat
unusual, but may become
more common over time.
Ball’s job is to help de-
velop food products. He said
being a research chef com-
bines the technical skills of
culinary arts with the prin-
ciples and methodologies of
food science.
Which leads us to dulse,
which is basically a red sea-
weed. Yum.
But it’s nutritious. OSU’s
Hatfi eld Marine Science Cen-
ter in Newport fi gured out 15
years ago how to raise dulse
in tanks rather than harvest it
from the ocean. The Marine
Science Center was raising it
to feed abalone when an OSU
business professor, Chuck
Toombs, took notice and
turned his marketing students
loose on the project. OSU
fi sheries researcher Chris
Langdon and colleagues pat-
ented a strain of dulse, and
Ball was hired to fi gure out
what to make with it.
His hiring had its own bit
of dulse kismet. Ball was
in Copenhagen, working on
plant-based ice cream prod-
ucts for the Nordic Food
Lab, when he saw the job
notice from the Food Inno-
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Talca, Chile
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Correction
A photo and caption in the
March 11 Seed & Row Crop sec-
tion confused two types of clover.
The photo was of crimson clover,
which is an annual, but the ac-
companying story was about red
clover, a perennial that has light
purple fl owers.
The Capital Press regrets the
error.