Our eminent panel--Congressman Jim McGovern, Marion Nestle, Michael Jacobson, Dariush Mozaffarian, and Kirsten Tobey felt there's room for optimism that this conference can and will have a lasting impact on our American food system. Listen in and see if you agree. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.

When an icon and role model in food policy and food studies writes a memoir, after writing more than a dozen policy-heavy books --you might expect it to be serious. Even a little preachy. But you’d be wrong here. Marion Nestle’s telling of her life story is juicy and delicious...

Marion Nestle is one of the original food activists in America. For nearly half a century, as she tells it in her recently published memoir Slow Cooked, she has been teaching and writing about the effects of politics on what we eat and, therefore, on our health. She has been...

Groundbreaking author, food policy activist, and professor Marion Nestle joins to talk about her latest book, a memoir.

The redoubtable Marion Nestle is the closest I can come to a modern-day Joan of Arc, rallying us for decades against private and public institutional forces as she advocates for good food, sensible nutrition, and responsible public health. Author of fourteen seminal books, and hundreds research papers, Op-Eds, and collaborations...

By: Anna Oakes It’s Valentine’s Day Weekend, and there’s one flavor you’re likely to find everywhere, filling the supermarket and your pharmacy aisles. Even across a (social) distance, we use sugar to show our love, from boxes of chocolates to those weird-tasting “be mine” heart candies to our names for...

The desire for sweetness is biologically hardwired in humans, according to Dr. Gary Beauchamp, longtime former director and president of the Monell Chemical Senses Center. It is an evolutionary response that developed way back when sweet things were hard to find in the natural environment. Now, we can find sweets...

This week on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, host Todd Schulkin welcomes nutrition and food industry expert Marion Nestle. Todd and Marion dive into what's at stake with our food this election and discuss her new book, Let’s Ask Marion. Plus, Marion shares her Julia Moment. Image courtesy of Bill Hayes. Heritage...

Host Jenna Liut kicks off the fall season with the one and only Marion Nestle to talk about her new book, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" published by the University of California Press. The book features a series of...

From farms and processing plants to restaurants and grocery stores, the pandemic has disrupted the food system and put food policy at the forefront of national discourse. Grassroots organizers, labor strikes, and rallying cries are beginning to influence new regulations surrounding essential businesses, government relief efforts, and creative solutions to...