Center for Culinary Development & Innovation (CCDI) | 2,088 followers on LinkedIn. The Power of Taste | The Center for Culinary Development & Innovation (CCDI) creates distinctive, culinary-inspired offerings that drive product innovation and fuel topline revenue growth for a broad range of leading companies, including packaged goods, restaurants and the food service industry. Our Food VisionĀ® process identifies leverageable trends, market insights, and culinary-inspired innovation that unlock high-potential opportunity areas, identifying where to play and right to win spaces. As a result, winning products are built here, and horizons-based new product roadmaps are curated to exceed your expectations.