RECORD
Marion Nestle, Interview 1: May 19, 2009
- Permalink:
- https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/f7m0cgkp
- Interview Title:
- Marion Nestle, Interview 1: May 19, 2009
- Description:
- Judith Weinraub interviews Marion Nestle about her early life and education, on balancing her career and motherhood, and what led her to working on the Surgeon General's report for Nutrition and Health.
- Narrator Name:
- Marion Nestle
- Narrator Biography:
- Marion Nestle is the premiere food studies professional in the United States. She unequivocally transformed the field when, in 1988, she took over the Department of Home Economics and Nutrition at New York University, and soon turned it into a ground-breaking academic program in nutrition, food studies, and public health. Her path traces a childhood without much parental encouragement, academic successes and multiple degrees, a pre-second wave feminism early career filled with the common restrictions and frustrations women then faced, and an adulthood at the highest rank of academic and personal achievement. A much sought-after speaker with particular interests in food politics, food marketing, and nutrition, she has written five books, and balances a schedule that includes teaching; research and writing; speaking; and an active highly-read blog (www.foodpolitics.com). This interview covers her early life and education; her two marriages; the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career; the responsibilities and challenges she faced writing the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health; her books; her years at New York University; and the development of the University's Food Studies Department.
- Interviewer Name:
- Judith Weinraub
- Interview Number:
- 1
- Date:
- 2009-05-19
- Total Length of Interview:
- 1 hour, 48 minutes
- Segment 1 Duration:
- 1:47:20
- Segment 1 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Nestle_Marion-interview_1/Nestle_Marion-2009_05_19-interview.precision.en.txt
- Topics:
- Cooking Feminism Gender Government policy, law and legislation Health and nutrition Political, social, and cultural movements
- People:
- Brody, Jane E. McGinnis, Michael
- Organizations:
- Brandeis University University of California, Berkeley New York University
- Places:
- California
- Next Interview:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/mn_05_26_2009.html
- File Type:
- sound
- Resource Type:
- oral histories (literary works)
- NYU Call Number:
- MSS_309.ref76.1
- Object Identifier:
- mn_05_19_2009
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Marion Nestle, Interview 1: May 19, 2009", Voices from the Food Revolution- People Who Changed The Way Americans Eat, NYU Fales Library
- Reference Link:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/mn_05_19_2009.html