The Forum with Marion Nestle: Sugar Coated

About this event

If you want to understand how the food business works, just have a look at a box of breakfast cereal. Hardly anything on supermarket shelves is bigger, bolder, or more deliberately designed. The fiercely competitive industry that brings us Cheerios, Froot Loops, and Trix sells a distinctly American dream: indulgence and health in one convenient package. Cereal boxes chronicle our shifting national obsessions with health, ingredients, dietary advice, and American culture. They show us what sells food: cartoons for kids, athletes for men, weight loss for women. And hidden in the history of cereal package designs, we find clues to the corporate lobbying that shapes agricultural policy, health claims, and labeling regulations. With Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America’s Favorite Breakfast Food, world-renowned food politics expert Marion Nestle joins forces with former cereal executive Lisa Sutherland to unbox the influence of cereal companies on food policy and the power of marketing, revealing, in the process, why Big Food is so good at selling profitable products regardless of their effects on health. Join Malcolm Clemens Young, dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Nestle about what cereal boxes reveal about American culture and food politics. Buy Sugar Coated. Books will also be available for purchase at The Forum courtesy of Omnivore Books. Watch Marion Nestle on RFK Jr. and the Politics of Food Registration is recommended but not required. The Forum will be posted on our Youtube and Apple Podcast channels. Grace To Grace You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. Click here to give. About the Guest Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor, of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she officially retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She…