Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
by Marion Nestle
Oct
24
2009
New York: Gourmet Institute’s How to Eat panel: CANCELLED!
This was to be a panel discussion moderated by WNYC Radio Host Leonard Lopate, to kick off this year’s Gourmet Institute. It was to include Ruth Reichl, Editor-in-chief, Gourmet (now former), Barry Estabrook, Politics of the Plate contributor, Kim Severson, Food Writer, The New York Times, Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA, and Lorraine Bracco, Actress/Winemaker, Bracco Wines. Along with the demise of Gourmet magazine, this got cancelled too. Alas.
