Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics
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"A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it's never too late."--New York Times 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. 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. 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. By 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. That's when she got started. 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 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520384156
ISBN13:9780520384156
Release Date:October 2022
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:294 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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