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.”
Weekend reading: Best American Food Writing, 2023
I am totally thrilled to have one of my articles anthologized in this book, just published.
Mark Bittman, editor. The Best American Food Writing, 2023. Mariner Books, 2023, 181 pages.
My contribution is an article from the American Journal of Public Health, Regulating the Food Industry: An Aspirational Agenda.
This year’s editor is Mark Bittman, who has selected an unusually diverse collection of writings (which is why my academic article is in there).
I particularly liked a piece about the food writer, MFK Fisher, by David Streitfield and what is essentially an obituary of the chef, Alain Sailhac, by Hugh Merwin, neither of which I had seen.
I had seen Ligaya Mishan’s “What we write about when we write about food,” from the New York Times Style Magazine, and have no trouble understanding why it was included; I thought it was brilliant.
There are lots of other superb pieces on all kinds of topics.
I feel greatly honored to be included. Thanks Mark!
