Food Hero Interviews

Diet Detective: How did you learn to cook? Michel: My mother, who was a farmer, taught me how to cook, can, pickle and butcher. She was quite the farm girl, capable …

Raj Patel is an award-winning author, filmmaker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He has …

Roy Steiner is the Managing Director of Food Initiatives at the Rockefeller Center, where he and his team work to improve access to healthy food for people across the globe. …

Bill Marler is a foodborne-illness attorney, who has become a major food policy advocate in the U.S. and around the world. His firm, Marler Clark, has a very descriptive tagline: …

If you haven’t had a chance to see Stephen Ritz on Ted.com you’re truly missing something special — he is a maverick educator, innovator, social entrepreneur, urban farmer and entertainer. …

In 1971 Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., along with two other scientists, founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).  The Center’s missions are to “conduct innovative research and advocacy …

#Dan Barber is the award-winning #chef of #Blue Hill, a restaurant in Manhattan’s West Village, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, located within the nonprofit farm and education center Stone …

Diet Detective: What was the “aha moment” that triggered the formation of the PCRM and why? Neal Barnard: The years before I went to medical school I had a job assisting …