Mal Nesheim and I will be talking about Feed Your Pet Right at the Fales special collections section of NYU’s Bobst Library (3rd floor), at 4:00. Click here for the invitation and details.
I’ll be speaking at a private salon that is open to the public. The series is in honor of Cyril Patrick Shaughnessy, Jr. It is free but requires rsvp. To rsvp, go to cpslectures.com. Click on “invite me.” This will trigger an e-mail and, later, an e-vite with details about where and when. My presentation, on “Food Politics, Pet Food Politics, and Today’s Healthcare Mess,” is at 8:00 p.m.
Mal Nesheim and I are talking about our new book, “Feed Your Pet Right,” at Holistic Hound, a nifty pet store at 1510 Walnut (near Vine) in Berkeley (we wrote the chapter on organic pet food based on products from this store). This will be at 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.
I am being honored by Eating Liberally, Saturday, May 1st – 7-11 pm, at their annual celebration. It’s at the DCTV Firehouse – 87 Lafayette between Walker and White – in Lower Manhattan. “Support the work of Living Liberally in over 300 cities, and toast our honorees: Dr. Marion Nestle for her leadership in improving our diets and the world and the labor powerhouse SEIU for its support of a progressive America.” For information and tickets, click here.
In honor of the opening of NYU’s new bookstore space at 726 Broadway, I will talk about my books about food politics at 7:00 p.m.
Clark Wolf is moderating one of his Critical Topics panels at the Fales Library (Bobst, 3rd Floor) from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Hear Frank Bruni, Scott Hocker, Krishnendu Ray, and me discuss how we are talking and writing about food in the new media world. Open to the public.
This is a panel on the “politics of food and health care” with David Kessler and Ruth Reichl.
Conference on “the precarious alliance: strengthening human networks and natural systems.” Information and registration. My hour-long talk is at around 10:00 a.m., on food issues related to climate change.
