Food royalty Mark Bittman joins us today to talk about a career spanning from the late seventies and early eighties until now. Of course he’s the author of the 1998 cookbook How To Cook Everything and the series that followed, he worked with the New York Times for 30 years including at his minimalist column, and has made America aware of the systemic problems embedded in how we eat with books like Animal, Vegetable, Junk. Today we hear a reflective side of Bittman. We’ll hear about his grandparents, who settled in the U.S. after leaving Europe, how the media has changed since he joined the industry, and his take on America’s food problem.

Ezra