The Bittman Project
Bill Chuck, Kate Bittman, The Editors, Kerri Conan, Holly Haines, Mark Bittman, Xueci Cheng, Tucker Shaw, Marion Nestle, Erika Houle, David BaconLots of food publications embrace the pleasurable and entertaining parts of food and ignore everything else; others focus on the serious issues and ignore the joy. The Bittman Project does both. (Plus, plenty of recipes.)
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The Labor and History of Snow Peas
Santa Maria, CA – Enrique Acuña works in a crew of Mexican immigrants picking snow peas for Bautista Farms. All photos: David Bacon
A couple things, before we get started today:
- Florence Fabricant is this week’s guest on Food w...
Food with Mark Bittman: Florence Fabricant
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Florence Fabricant has been writing about food for the New York Times since 1972. She has watched farm-to-table go from fringe idea to cliché, lived through the rise of the celebrity chef, and outlasted most of the rest...
Food with Mark Bittman: First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom
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On this week’s episode of Food with Mark Bittman, Kate and I interviewed First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
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We talked with Jennifer about what actually happened when the state decided every pu...
Cooking for One: Crispy Tofu with Broccolini and Rice
A Chinese classic that checks all the boxes — plus, a tofu hack.
One of the challenges of cooking for one is putting together a delicious, interesting meal without spending hours in the kitchen. Another is to achieve all your nutritional g...
Food Stamp Catastrophe
A distribution station of the Food Bank for New York City, 2025. Photo: Getty Images
A father in Illinois had to choose between going to work or going to the food bank because he only had enough gas for one trip. A deaf person in Nebraska...
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Baseball author with Bob Ryan. Researcher and writer for Charley Steiner. Supplier of stats and history to media throughout baseball.
Co-host (and reluctant producer) of the podcast Food with Mark Bittman. Editorial Director here. Recipes are my jam.
A newsletter from Mark Bittman and team of food enthusiasts. Lots of food publications embrace the pleasurable and entertaining parts of food and ignore everything else; others focus on the serious issues and ignore the joy. We do both.
Editor, writer, recipe developer, and cookbook producer. Self-proclaimed home economist. Thrilled contributor @ The Bittman Project.
Mark Bittman has been a leading voice in food culture and policy for forty years. He has written thirty books, including How to Cook Everything and Animal, Vegetable, Junk. He is the editor-in-chief of The Bittman Project.
Recipes and stories from a Sichuanese living and cooking in Berlin.
Writer, editor, and clumsy but determined home cook. Former editor in chief of Cook's Country at America's Test Kitchen.
Marion Nestle is professor emerita at NYU, and author of multiple books about the politics of food. See and subscribe to her daily blog: https://foodpolitics.com. Bio: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/marion-nestle
In the kitchen with mischievous animals. Cooking, reading, and writing. Based in LA.
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