Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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The story of how Marion Nestle got the courage to call out food giants and became an icon of nutrition science.

0:00 Intro
1:35 Marion is 85!
3:22 Rough childhood
7:20 Struggle to get a PhD
12:27 Teaching at Brandeis
18:52 Associate Dean at UCSF
24:54 First book of nutrition
31:05 Fired and depressed. Back to school.
40:46 The Surgeon General's Report
48:10 Chairman of NYU Nutrition
49:47 An unlikely friendship with Julia Child
57:08 Breakout book: Food Politics

Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics
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