slow cooked an unexpected life in food politics

'An engrossing and beautiful memoir-personal, generous, thoughtful, and inspiring. A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it's never too late.'- 'New York Times' In Slow Cooked, she holds nothing back as she details moments of doubt - like when the Sugar Association threatened to sue her after she published Food Politics in 2002 - with both humor and suspense. 'Her prose exhibits the same accessibility she strives for in her academic work. But now in 20-20 hindsight, they remain indispensable.'- 'Forbes' prodigious writings, advocacy and public speaking on food policy, political economy and food safety were quite unexpected given career trajectory. 'The great Marion Nestle, not a person who spends a lot of time talking about herself, has written a memoir. Slow Cooked tells her personal story-one that is deeply relevant to everyone who eats, and anyone who thinks it's too late to follow a passion. Slow Cooked charts her astonishing rise from bench scientist to the pinnacles of academia, as she overcame the barriers and biases facing women of her generation and found her life's purpose after age fifty. Slow Cooked recounts of how she built an unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the sciences, and how she came to recognize and reveal the enormous influence of the food industry on our dietary choices.īy the time Nestle obtained her doctorate in molecular biology, she had been married since the age of nineteen, dropped out of college, worked as a lab technician, divorced, and become a stay-at-home mom with two children. In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more sustainable diets.

Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert, public health advocate, and a founder of the field of food studies after facing decades of low expectations.

Description 'A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it's never too late.' - New York Times

Slow cooked an unexpected life in food politics