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Introducing Food & Society at the Aspen Institute's Food is Medicine Community Action Plan!

Spotlighting 14 orgs transforming health through food. Today: About Fresh uses tech to deliver fresh, culturally appropriate food with dignity.

Learn more: https://www.fimcommunity.org/cases/about-fresh

The Golden Age of Condiments - Food & Society From drugs that make you crave vegetables (yeah, you read [...]

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are changing eating habits—users crave fresh produce over processed foods. With 12% of Americans on these meds, how do we support lasting change? Watch the conversation on Boston Public Radio: https://aspenfood.org/2026/02/04/the-golden-age-of-condiments/ #FoodPolicy #GLP1

This should include embracing plant-based meat alternatives to combat terrible environmental and animal welfare harms.
Agricultural subsidies should encourage fresh nutritious foods for human consumption.We should support more generous SNAP benefits to get good food to those facing food insecurity."

"We know what the problems with the American diet are: People need less red meat, fat, sugar, and more vegetables, fruit, legumes, grains. We should invest in better food technologies that can be used to transform nutritious whole foods into even more nutritious processed and prepared foods.

Opinion | We Shouldn’t Want to Eat Like Our Great-Great-Grandparents

Before you write off a piece defending industrial food, look at the concluding recommendations, all of which are sensible and some of which the current administration might both endorse (not all! they lead with eating less red meat) and think how to implement.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Food & Society at the Aspen Institute's third cohort of Food Leaders Fellows visited some beautiful people in DC. Thank you The Green Scheme, Hustlaz 2 Harvesters and Dreaming Out Loud for welcoming us and sharing your work. We felt the love.

Yesterday on Boston Public Radio I revealed what I eat for lunch every day: sardines. Turn on the volume for Jim and Margery's reactions!

But listen to the segment for my recipe and more: https://ow.ly/CREu50Y8ZOH
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We're in the golden age of condiments! Now live on Boston Public Radio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk1X...

Food is Medicine Community Action Plan Launch Food & Society at the Aspen Institute launched the Food is Medicine Community Action Plan, a resource designed to elevate community-based organizations as essential…

Cathryn Couch, Executive Director of @CeresCommunityProject, shares what's at stake and why funders should prioritize local community-based organizations. Watch: https://vimeo.com/1157721565?fl=pl&fe=sh#t=23m7s

Food is Medicine Community Action Plan Launch Food & Society at the Aspen Institute launched the Food is Medicine Community Action Plan, a resource designed to elevate community-based organizations as essential…

"When you pair dignity with logistics, you don't just feed people. You improve health outcomes, shift spending, and create pathways to long-term well-being." Dion Dawson of Dion's Chicago Dream and Food Leaders Fellow

Watch our launch webinar: https://vimeo.com/1157721565?fl=pl&fe=sh#t=31m9s

I encourage anyone working at the intersection of health, food access, and community resilience to watch
@aspenfood.bsky.social Food is Medicine Community Action Plan launch: aspenfood.org/fim

Thank you to everyone who joined today's launch! 🎉

Explore the Community Action Plan portal now: www.FIMCommunity.org

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TODAY!

At 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT Food & Society at the Aspen Institute launches the Food is Medicine Community Action Plan. Join us to hear from Dion's Chicago Dream, Ceres Community Project, and Community Servings.

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Jan 22: Real community leaders. Real strategies. Real impact.

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Meet Dion's Chicago Dream | Community Servings | Ceres Community Project

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To Eat Healthier, Our Critic Went to the Source: His Kitchen In the second part of a monthlong series, Pete Wells and experts say the easiest way to a better diet is to surround yourself with the right foods.

And I got to say that government and industry can hugely help creating a healthier food environment for everyone. cooking.nytimes.com/article/pete...

Thrilled that I got to tell Pete Wells what to eat for @nytimes.com. Of course I didn’t tell him what to eat. A question of surrounding yourself with stuff you like and think is good for you.

To Eat Healthier, Our Critic Went to the Source: His Kitchen In the second part of a monthlong series, Pete Wells and experts say the easiest way to a better diet is to surround yourself with the right foods.

Honored to contribute to Pete Wells' series on home cooking and health. Changing your food environment is the first and most important change you can make for yourself. Read his story in The New York Times: https://cooking.nytimes.com/article/pete-wells-kitchen-health-cooking

Zeke Emanuel's book party for Eat Your Ice Cream at Dolcezza. His new book distills rigorous science into common-sense wellness advice. His key insight? Social engagement for living better & longer. Watch us on Boston Public Radio: https://ow.ly/l7sO50XVHn3

The youngest member of our adopted Atlanta family, John Henry Collins, was formally made an Eagle Scout at the Court of Honor this afternoon, like his twin uncles--the closest by far I ever came to the Scouts. Their and their families' dedication to service and each other was moving and remarkable.

Our Former Restaurant Critic Changed His Eating Habits. You Can, Too. Pete Wells tells how he recovered from an out-of-control diet. And each week in January, he and experts will suggest ways to reset your own appetite.

"Today, I am about 55 pounds lighter than I was at my zenith, a loss roughly equivalent to dropping an entire male basset hound."
The start of Pete Wells's new series on changing his diet is delightfully written, as usual, and all thoughtful common sense. cooking.nytimes.com/article/our-...

Missed opportunity to recommend and regulate lower sodium, where small regulatory reductions can make huge health improvements.

Still! "Eat Real Food" as a mantra and the poster-sized message on the new pyramid is a change everyone can welcome.

Also a recommendation few seem to be picking up on: baking and roasting over deep-frying, cheery tallow-fries endorsements aside.

The good in today's new Dietary Guidelines: reducing "highly processed" foods, term that seems fine since there's no agreed-on definition of ultra-processed foods: “clear, straightforward, supported by science," says @marionnestle.bsky.social.

www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/d...

I never know where the conversation will go on #BostonPublicRadio! talking food trends and policy—and somehow spent half the segment on celtuce, a vegetable so magnificently ugly I've never actually seen one in real life.
Hope you take a moment to listen!

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New year, same mission: fix the food system. But 2026 feels different—have momentum, partnerships, and a community of fellows who are actually making things happen. Grateful to be part of this work. Here's to building more longer tables.

Longer Tables Funds Makes Transformational Gift to Food Leaders Fellowship This is "Longer Tables Funds Makes Transformational Gift to Food Leaders Fellowship" by Food and Society on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…

@ChefJoseAndres gets it: the next generation of food leaders needs support NOW. His Longer Tables Fund just made our fellowship exponentially more powerful. Grateful doesn't begin to cover it. Let's build those longer tables. 🙏
https://vimeo.com/1119870410

There will be a quiz at the end! Always fun with Margery & Jim on @BosPublicRadio. More: https://aspenfood.org/2025/12/23/may-your-panettone-be-light/