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
May
4
2012
Brooklyn’s Food Book Fair launches today
I was honored to give the keynote address to this weekend’s splendid Food Book Fair (for information, travel directions, and schedule, click here).
The Fair features the work of groups listed in the poster. It encompasses an unusually broad vision of food studies in action.
The venue, the Wythe Hotel at 12th street in Brooklyn, is an architectural wonder and worth the trip on its own. It’s just a short walk from the Bedford Street subway stop on the L line.
Check out the schedule. Check out the terrific selection of books at the bookstore–all on food in its many dimensions.
Come!
