This runs from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave. Agenda to follow. Register here.

This book has a big theme, and I was happy to do a blurb for it:
If you don’t understand why anti-hunger groups hardly ever advocate for higher wages or public health nutrition measures for low-income Americans, see Andy Fisher’s analysis: they owe too much to their food-company donors. Big Hunger is a call to action, one well worth heeding.
Here’s his interview today in Civil Eats.