In this Episode we are getting together with wonderful NYU professor and Author, Marion Nestle, who is "the authority" when it comes to discussing Food Politics, having delved into the subject for over 30 years. Her love for nutrition and food policies help us raise interesting questions and learn that, we must do more and be responsible for our health.
In this Episode we are getting together with wonderful NYU professor and Author, Marion Nestle, who is "the authority" when it comes to discussing Food Politics, having delved into the subject for over 30 years. Her love for nutrition and food policies help us raise interesting questions and learn that, we must do more and be responsible for our health.
About Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor, of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she officially retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky (2012) and from the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College (2016).
Among her recent honors are the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service from Bard College in 2010, the Public Health Hero award from the University of California School of Public Health at Berkeley in 2011, the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2013, and the Innovator of the Year Award from the U.S. Healthful Food Council, and the Public Health Association of New York City’s Media Award in 2014. In 2016, her book, Soda Politics, won literary awards from the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), and she was elected to membership in the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society. She was honored with a Trailblazer Award from the IACP, the Grand Dame Award from Les Dames d’Escoffier, and Cherry Bombe’s Hall of Fame in 2018. She is the recipient of the Hunter College Food Policy Center’s first Changemaker award and was appointed to Heritage Food Radio’s Hall of Fame in 2019.
From 2008 to 2013, she wrote a monthly Food Matters column for the San Francisco Chronicle food section. She blogs daily (almost) at www.foodpolitics.com, and tweets @marionnestle (named by Time Magazine, Science Magazine, and The Guardian as among the top ten in health and science). She currently has more than 140,000 Twitter followers.
Her impressive CV is available here
Her amazing books, including her latest, Slow Cooked, to be released October 2022, are all available HERE
About SLOW COOKED (Coming October 2022)
Overview: Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert, public health advocate, and founder of the field of food studies following decades of low expectations.
Description: In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more sustainable diets. Slow Cooked tells the story of how she built an unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the sciences, and came to recognize and reveal the enormous influence of the food industry on our dietary choices.
By the time Marion obtained her doctorate in molecular biology, she had been married since the age of nineteen, dropped out of college, worked as a lab technician, divorced, and become a stay-at-home mom with two children. That’s when she got started. Slow Cooked charts Marion’s astonishing rise from bench scientist to the pinnacles of academia, how she overcame the barriers and biases women of her generation faced, and how she found her life’s purpose after age fifty. Slow Cooked tells her personal story—one that is deeply relevant to everyone who eats and to anyone who thinks it might be too late to follow a passion.
Extra Resources to dig a little deeper
GMO crops commercially available in the US
Controlled Food System Report - the agenda behind sustainability and food security
Marion Nestle's Photo Credit: Bill Hayes