Marion Nestle — Saturday January 13, 2007 at Screening of Award-Winning Film Festival Submissions
 Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, in the department that she chaired from 1988 through 2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on analysis of the scientific, social, cultural, and economic factors that influence the development, implementation, and acceptance of federal dietary guidance policies. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (University of California Press, 2002) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (University of California Press, 2003), and is co-editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2004). Her latest book, What to Eat (North Point Press, a Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was published in May 2006. Visit her website for more information about her work.
Chef Philippe Trosch
A native of Biarritz, France, Philippe was raised by restaurateur parents who nurtured his passion for cooking. He attended culinary school in Normandy at 17 and then enrolled in Cornell University’s School of Hotel & Restaurant Management. Chef Philippe traveled the world working in the kitchens of the Ritz Hotel in London, Les Moulin de Mougins in Paris and Bernard’s in Los Angeles. Most recently, he was executive chef at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
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