‘Don’t forget: We make food’

Cargill’s newish managing director of plant-based meat alternatives is no white-coated lab pioneer or extruder-whisperer: Sarah Frick knows the protein business is about food, not technology.

Frick is Wichita, Kansas-born and -bred, but working for Cargill’s protein headquarters there was not initially her career goal. Her first dream was to be an ad agency creative, a Mad (Wo)man for the Midwest.

And she was, for five years, at Sullivan,…