Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle is a New York-based university professor, and the author of the excellent nonfiction book What To Eat. Filmgoers with strong stomachs will remember her from Supersize Me, where she was the only person able to give a coherent decent explanation of what a calorie is.

Aftertaste:
I really disliked the little gray boxes featuring excerpts from the text that crop up on almost every page of What to Eat. I'm sure that they were there to add a little visual relief to what would otherwise have been five hundred or so pages of text... but if they'd taken them out, I imagine that the page count would have dropped considerably.

Availability:
Everywhere, as long as you've got $30 to spare.

Other Recommendations:
The Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner

Website:
http://www.foodpolitics.com/ -