It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Coming up later this hour, this week's edition of our shop listener call in,

helping our listeners who sell holiday gifts

compete with retail giants. Today it'll be for you if you're selling gifts for $50 or less,

$50 or less shop listener coming up later this hour. But first, we turn now to a book that

tries to answer a question we all face every single day, what to eat. And not just in the

what's for dinner sense, but the deeper, more overwhelming project of deciding how to be healthy,

what to prioritize in your daily diet, how to grocery shop, and also the intersection of our

food choices and our politics. The book is What to Eat Now, an indispensable

guide to good food, why it matters, and where to find it. It's a newly overhauled version

of Marian Nessle's classic 2006 guide, What to Eat at its 20th anniversary. Mary Nessel,

who's appeared many times on this show, as some of you know,

is a biologist and nutritionist whose work helped popularize the idea that food is political,

long before that idea became part of the mainstream conversation. She helped make it that.

In this new edition, she re-examines a food system that has transformed dramatically since the mid-2000s and helps us understand how our own habits and choices fit into and are driven by that bigger picture.

So again, it's What to Eat now, which is an update of the original book from 20 years ago, What to Eat.

Marian Nessel, always great to have you.

Congratulations on the new book.

Welcome back to WMYC.

Thank you.

I'm really happy to be back.

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