Life
Born 1955 on Long Island. A journalist by training, a gardener by obsession. For twenty years he wrote about food, agriculture, and the human relationship to the other species we eat and grow.
The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) and In Defense of Food (2008) reshaped the public conversation about what's on the American plate. In 2018 he turned to another subject long considered unrespectable — psychedelics — and with How to Change Your Mind did for that field what his earlier work did for food.
He teaches at UC Berkeley and Harvard. His voice is the one American journalism tends to produce at its best: curious, precise, and never afraid to change its mind.
Works
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