Marion Nestleis Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She is the author ofWhat to Eatand, from UC Press,Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health; Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety; andPet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine. Malden Nesheim is Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He is coauthor (with Marion Nestle) ofFeed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Catand (with Ann L. Yaktine) of the Institute of Medicine reportSeafood Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks.
Judith Jones is Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf. Judith has worked for the company since 1957, beginning as an editor working on translations of French writers. She had worked before that for Doubleday, both in New York and Paris, where she was responsible for recommending The Diary of Anne Frank. Judith has developed a list of first-rate cookbook writers; her authors have included Julia Child, James Beard, Joan Nathan, Jacques P�pin, among many others. Jones is the coauthor on a number of books with Evan Jones (her late husband) and Angus Cameron. Judith has written My Life in Food (2007) and The Pleasures of Cooking for One (2009). She has contributed to Vogue,… Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. In 2006, Judith was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
Chef and restauranteur Alice Waters was born April 28,1944, in Chatham, New Jersey. She attended University of California at Berkeley where she earned a degree in French Cultural Studies. She has been the owner of the Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California for almost three decades. She is the author of The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook and Chez Panisse Vegetables. Waters collaborated with others chefs and a cardiologist to produce Heart-Healthy Cooking for All Seasons. Her awards include the Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, Restaurant and Business Leadership Award, Restaurants & Institutions Magazine and the James Beard Humanitarian Award. She was named Best Chef in America by… the James Beard Foundation in 1992 and was listed as one of the ten best chefs in the world by Cuisine et Vins de France.