Marion Nestle, SLOW COOKED: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Zibby is joined by molecular biologist, NYU professor, and leading public health advocate Dr. Marion Nestle to discuss her engrossing and deeply moving new memoir Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics. Marion describes the challenges she faced as a woman working in a science lab in the 50s, and the career sacrifices she made to raise her children. She also talks about her late-in-life successes – from pivoting to teaching and navigating exclusionary academic environments to falling in love with food studies and becoming one of the most important voices in the food world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Marian Nessel is the author of Slow Cooked and Unexpected Life in Food Politics. |
| 1:03.5 | Marion is the Paulette Goddard Professor Emerita of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. |
| 1:09.6 | She is the author of 15 books, mostly about food politics, and a frequent speaker and commentator |
| 1:14.3 | on food system issues from agriculture to health. |
| 1:17.5 | And please excuse me in this podcast because I had a bad cold and was stifling nonstop. |
| 1:22.0 | Welcome, Dr. Nestle. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm sorry, I could not bring myself to call you Marion because I just have so much respect. |
| 1:28.1 | Anyway, thank you for coming on. |
| 1:30.3 | Moms don't have time to read books to discuss slow-cooked and unexpected life in food politics. |
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