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.

Sugar Coated will explore how the food industry, publicly and behind the scenes, sells its products—as illustrated by breakfast cereals.