Author Marion Nestle will discuss her new book and the links between nutrition, health and politics, navigating a supermarket designed to confuse us and obscure the origins and nature of food.

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, in the department that she chaired from 1988 through 2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

She is the author of Nutrition in Clinical Practice; Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (winner of awards from the James Beard Foundation, Association of American Publishers, and World Hunger Year); and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book), and she is co-editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition. Inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America/Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, she lives in New York City.

Visit her website at www.foodpolitics.com.