Abstract

1980s Making cookies Melissa Weller grew up baking cookies with her mother. “My mom baked with margarine because that was sort of the trend in the ’80s,” Weller says. In college, her parents encouraged her to do something science related, so she got a degree in chemical engineering. “But I also loved France, and I loved languages.” So she double majored in international relations and spent a year studying in France. “I was so enthralled with all of the different pastries and how good they were, and I think the science part of me wanted to know how to make it all from scratch,” she says. “I stuck with engineering, but I think my heart was always in cooking in France.” 1995 Engineering her dream job Upon graduating, Weller received a job offer from Air Products and Chemicals, where she entered a career-development program and rotated among engineering assignments. “None

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