Can we shop our way out of a contaminated food system? Amanda Claire Starbuck’s Cleaning Our Plates, just sold to University of California Press, investigates how pollutants reach our meals—and what we can do about it.

Marion Nestle turns 90 today, and on Tuesday I got to celebrate with her at NYU’s Bobst Library, where a launch party for Sugar Coated doubled as a birthday party.

I am so pleased to announce that my friend and earliest client, Marion Nestle, will be publishing her memoir A Life in Food Politics with...