Nestle, Marion

Marion Nestle (1936-) is the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Nestle is a leading nutrition scholar and has written three award winning books, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health ; Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety ; and What to Eat . As a child, she attended camp Higley Hill in Vermont. Her father, Ted Zittel, was a labor publicist, most notably successful for the strike against the Brass Rail Restaurant in New York City.