Corby Kummer is executive director of the Food and Society program at the Aspen Institute, researching food as medicine and working to steer the food system toward sustainability and equity. He is also a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and a senior editor at The Atlantic. Kummer is the author of “The Joy of Coffee” and “The Pleasures of Slow Food,” the first book in English on the Slow Food movement. He has been the restaurant critic for New York, Boston and Atlanta magazines and a food and food policy columnist for The New Republic. A weekly commentator on food and food policy on WGBH’s Boston Public Radio, Kummer has received six James Beard Journalism Awards.
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