Marion Nestle isn’t just AN expert. She is THE expert in food science. You would be hard done by to find a more qualified and well spoken fount of knowledge.

• Brandeis University, lecturer in biology, 1971-73
• Brandeis University, assistant professor of biology, 1974-76
• UCSF School of Medicine, lecturer in biochemistry and biophysics, 1976-84
• UCSF School of Medicine, associate dean, school of medicine, human biology programs administrative director, medical scientist training program, 1976-86
• UCSF School of Medicine, lecturer in medicine, 1979-84
• UCSF School of Medicine, acting director, medical scientist training program 1983-84
• UCSF School of Medicine, lecturer in family and community medicine, 1984-85
• UCSF School of Medicine, director, John Tung/American Cancer Society clinical nutrition education center, 1984-86
• UCSF School of Medicine, adjunct associate professor, family and community medicine, 1985-86
• UCSF School of Medicine, associated faculty, Institute for Health Policy Studies and Institute for Aging Health Policy, 1983-86
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, staff director for nutrition policy, senior nutrition policy advisor, managing editor, Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health (1988), 1986-88
• New York University, School of Education, professor and chair, nutrition and food studies, 1998-2003
• New York University, professor and director of Public Health Initiatives, 2003-04
• New York University, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, c. 2004—
• New York University, honorary professor in the Department of Sociology, 2006

She literally wrote the book on how nutrition is politicized and obfusticated by capital.

Despite the surname and expertise in food, she’s unrelated to the Nestle family. Just a bit of fun nominative determinism.