Slow Cooked (eBook)

An Unexpected Life in Food Politics

Marion Nestle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
294 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38416-3 (ISBN)

Infos

"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.

Inhalt

Contents

Introduction 

1 A Long, Slow Start
2 My First Academic Job
3 Second Job: A Spousal Hire 
4 Back to School 
5 Working for the Feds 
6 Finally, NYU 
7 Joining the Food World 
8 Inventing Food Studies 
9 Writing Food Politics 
10 The Fun Begins 
11 How I Do It 
12 The Books 

Conclusion: Some Final Thoughts 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Illustration Credits 
Index 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: academia • american cultures • Biography • changing careers • Cuisine • Culture • diet • Dietary • domesticity • Environmental Studies • Familial • Family • Food Policy • Food Politics • Food Studies • Household • Housewife • late success • leaving academia • Memoir • Nutrition • Personal • Politics • Public Health • Story • systems thinking • trailblazer • wine
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38416-4 / 0520384164
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38416-3 / 9780520384163