Photo credit: Aqua Cultured Foods
On a typical April evening in Chicago — cold and windy — a group of invited guests gathered at the offices of Aqua Cultured for the company’s inaugural consumer taste test of its plant-based shrimp, scallops and tuna.
CEO and co-founder Anne Palermo was nervous: The crowd of millennials (and one boomer editor) were exactly the kind of consumers that have mostly embraced the alt-meat wave, and the cohort that is expected to drive the…