NYU’s Institute of Public Knowledge is hosting the launch of Practicing Food Studies, edited by Amy Bentley, Fabio Parasecoli, and Krishnendu Ray. I wrote the Foreword. We will all provide brief perspectives on our quarter century of teaching food studies. For information and registration, click here. For 30% off on the book, click here.
by Marion Nestle
Dec
22
2008
The NY Times weighs in on the Vilsack appointment
The New York Times editorial writers have some interesting things to say about the challenges facing the new USDA secretary. The Vilsack appointment, they say, “has the merit of being unsatisfactory to both extremes of the farm-policy debates.” This makes me wonder when sustainable agriculture will be viewed as the wave of the future, and not as “extreme.” Soon?
12/23 update: Here’s Kim Severson’s piece in the food section on what needs to happen at the USDA.