Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health Emerita at New York University and a widely cited authority on how industry and policy shape what we eat. She has written seminal books—including Food Politics, Unsavory Truth, her 2022 memoir Slow Cooked, and The Fish Counter (2025)—and continues to advise national bodies on nutrition and public-health issues. In this episode, we discuss:

- The critical role of government in breaking (and fixing) the American food system

- The decline of small scale family farming

- How consumers can make conscious food choices at the store or market

- The importance cooking literacy plays in healthy eating across economic backgrounds

- What makes shopping for fish and seafood uniquely difficult