Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt of Marion Nestle’s new book, Let’s Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition and Health, out this week. In each of t...
Civil Eats: Your next book, Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning), documents the history of how this sugary beverage gave rise to some of our most powerful corporations and has lately b...
https://civileats.com/2015/08/12/lets-ask-marion-can-exercise-balance-out-soda-drinking/
Forget about exploding airbags. America’s exploding waistlines have us on a collision course, literally, with food-induced fatalities. Our crash test dummies just gained 106 pounds overnight, a...
https://civileats.com/2014/10/31/movement-notes-dispatch-from-the-james-beard-foundation-conference/
Michael Bloomberg’s controversial public health campaigns against Big Tobacco, Big Food, and Big Gulps gave late night comics a lot of fodder, but you can’t mock the metrics. The former New Y...
When Laurie David sets her eye on a project, there’s no doubt she will make it happen. She’s the Oscar-winning film producer who convinced Al Gore to turn his climate change slide show into a...
https://civileats.com/2014/05/07/laurie-david-dishes-about-fed-up-and-her-new-cookbook/
There’s no better way to celebrate the beginning of spring than to stock up on seeds and get ready to break new ground. Gardening always keeps you guessing, because you never know from one seas...
https://civileats.com/2014/03/24/the-art-of-gardening-seed-pack-art-for-spring/
Factory farmed chickens have it bad, but in Christopher Leonard’s new meat industry exposé The Meat Racket, it’s the farmers who get plucked. Leonard, a former agribusiness reporter for the...
For such a young nation, we’re having an awful lot of senior moments. Where the hell did we misplace those keys to a peaceful and prosperous future? Where’s our legendary American ingenuity? ...
https://civileats.com/2013/09/27/farm-aid-makerfaire-go-forth-be-fertile-not-futile/
GMOs–aka genetically modified organisms–weren’t on GMO OMG filmmaker Jeremy Seifert’s radar till he and his wife Jen became parents and assumed the awesome responsibility of nourishing th...
https://civileats.com/2013/09/19/gmo-omg-mop-tops-take-on-monsanto/
You’re far more likely to get a stomach ache than a belly laugh from food news on any given day; there’s not a lot of humor in stories about contaminated food, diet-related disease, abused li...