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This is a nutrition seminar, chaired by Francesco Branca, director of nutrition for health and development, WHO.  It’s on Soda Politics: taking on big soda (and winning) – a guide for advocates.  11:00 – 12:00, Library meeting room

This is a screening of Michael Pollan’s new documentary, “In Defense of Food” at NYU’s Skirball Center for Performing Arts, at 6:30.  It’s followed by a panel discussion with me, Pollan, director michael Schwarz, and writer Ed Gray.  Krishnendu Ray will moderate.

Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for NYU students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and may be purchased online at nyuskirball.org or in person at the NYU Skirball Center Box Office: Tuesday-Saturday, 12–6 p.m. The NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South.

The women’s food organization, Les Dames d’Escoffier, is sponsoring a panel discussion: The Next Big Bite: What You will Cook, Eat and Crave in 2016.  It’s from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), 225 Liberty Street at Brookfield Place.. Doors open at 6:00 PM.

The panel is moderated by Rozanne Gold, and includes Amanda Cohen, chef/owner, Dirt Candy; Amanda Hesser, co-founder/CEO, Food52; Mimi Sheraton, food critic and writer, and me.

Admission is $65 ($35 for students); tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1887854. For further information, click here: www.ldny.org. Join the conversation at #TheNextBigBite.

I am speaking about Soda Politics at a conference titled Make Real Change: Nutrition Educators as Advocates, from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (registration begins at 8:30 AM).  My talk starts at 11:20 a.m.  New School, Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th Street.

This is one of a series on Food Policy for Breakfast, moderated by Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, CUNY School of Public Health and Hunter College, Faculty Director, NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College.  My seminar, on Soda Politics, will be at the CUNY School of Public Health, 7th Floor Auditorium, 55 West 125th Street, from 9:00 am – 10:30 am but arrive earlier for open networking.  For more information, see the Food Policy Center website.

This group meets monthly to explore the science of food.  I will be talking about the science and politics behind Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning), 5:30-7:30 p.m., location and registration details to come.

This is a panel discussion chaired by Clark Wolf as part of the Fales Critical Topics in Food series.  The panel is on Cooking Big Food: The Fight for Better Eating.  Other panelists are Antonio Biagi, Founder AB Biagi Cafe, Gelato & Sorbet, and Nicole Civita of the Rian Fried Center for Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems at Sterling College (there may be more to come).  4:00 p.m.  Free.  Fales is on the 3rd floor of the Bobst Library at NYU, 70 Washington Square South.  rsvp requested: bobst@nyu.edu

My talk is titled “Soda Politics: Food and Health Advocacy in Action.”  It is at 5:00 p.m. followed by a reception.   Details to follow.