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Mark Bittman        

Former NYT Writer; Author of "How to Cook Everything" Series; Host of "Food with Mark Bittman"

Mark Bittman is most famous for his more than 20 cookbooks, including the "How to Cook Everything" series, and his revolutionary "VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00" approach to diet. Bittman’s most recent book is Dinner for Everyone. He’s also become a significant voice challenging how our current food system fails in almost every way to provide the most basic essentials for human life — real, good food. And he’s exploring how innovators around the world are doing just that. A former New York Times food writer, Bittman is one of the few people who can speak with authority on virtually all aspects of food.

Bittman is currently special advisor on food policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series. He is also the editor in chief of Heated. His most recent book is his history of food and humanity, "Animal, Vegetable, Junk."

Bittman’s 2007 TED talk has had more than three million views and he has spoken at dozens of universities and conferences. In addition to the "How to Cook Everything" series and The New York Times number-one bestseller, "VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00,:Bittman is currently special advisor on food policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series. He is also the editor in chief of Heated. His most recent book is his history of food and humanity, Animal, Vegetable, Junk." Bittman is the author of the award-winning "Food Matters" and of more than twenty other books. For more than two decades he wrote popular and compelling stories about food in the Times, where he became the lead food writer for the Sunday Magazine. He has written for nearly every major newspaper in the United States and for many magazines. He has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-award-winning Years of Living Dangerously, and he is regularly featured on the Today Show.

Speech Topics


Getting Serious About Food: Safety, Hunger & Sustainability

Eating Like Food Matters

What We Can Do About Obesity

Personal Food Policy: The Importance of Conscious Eating

Reducing Consumption to Heal the Planet & Ourselves

What's Wrong with the Way We Eat

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Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating

In this talk, Mark Bittman draws the vital links between our diet, our health, and climate change. Meat, simple carbohydrates and junk food are being overproduced and overconsumed. And our bodies, as well as the planet, are paying the price. Bittman, however, is optimistic. With simple adjustments, he helps you eat more sanely, more consciously, by becoming less reliant on animal products and nutritionally worthless food. His approach helped him lose 35 pounds, solve health problems, and reduce his personal impact on the environment. The steps he proposes are not effortless (eat less meat, and none before 6pm), but they amount to the most meaningful lifestyle change you'll ever try, and they'll make you rethink your relationship to food. A highly engaging speaker, Bittman shows us how our food is produced, how it's marketed, and how it'sconsumedproviding a timely, comprehensive answer to why food matters.

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Opinion | Mark Bittman: How to Make Really Good Bread - The New ...
Nov 26, 2021 ... Mark Bittman is on the faculty of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and is the author, most recently, of “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food ...

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