Marianne Cooper and I write about how younger women’s experiences at work are showing us that reaching gender equality is not inevitable - and what companies can do to ensure we get there.
I spoke with Anna North about Americans’ complicated relationship with chicken nuggets, and why parents feed them to kids—even if they’d prefer not to.
Marie Holmes and I discussed the individualization and privatization of foodwork in the United States—and what it might mean to redistribute that labor more collectively.
Zoë Saunders and I discuss how anxieties of parenting around food transcend class, and why it’s so hard for mothers to feel like they are doing a good job.
Jessica Grose interviewed me about my new book, as well as the pressures and challenges for mothers in feeding children.
Kenny Torrella interviewed me about hunger in America, including the repercussions of ending extended emergency SNAP allotments.
I spoke with reporter Agnes Pawlowski about why moms may say "yes" to their kids' requests for junk food and the complex (often overlooked) social factors that shape our diets.
I spoke with Senior Correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates about how race and class affect the way we eat, what makes dollar store junk food different from organic junk food, and why Whole Foods has become such a polarizing grocery store.
I co-authored an opinion piece on CNN, arguing that surging food prices disproportionately harm low-income, Black and brown families and threaten to exacerbate longstanding inequities in hunger and nutrition.
I spoke with host Alexis Madrigal about gender disparities in nourishing children and how dads and schools can step up to address nutritional inequality.
Guest host Roxanne Khamsi interviewed me about America’s food disparity problem.
I spoke with Luke Tsai about why food deserts aren’t the cause of nutritional inequality.
Host Kai Ryssdal interviewed me on how economic inequality affects the American diet.
Host DeRay McKesson interviewed me about How the Other Half Eats.
The Salt Lake Tribune discussed my new book, as well as how my own experiences as a mother shaped my research and writing.
Matthew Wheeland interviewed me about how nourishing children has become an “anxiety-provoking and high-stakes” parenting endeavor.
Host Evan Kleiman interviewed me about the roots of Americans’ unhealthy eating habits, food injustice, and how economic inequality and emotional nourishment affect the American diet.
Host Caroline Ballard interviewed me about the nutritional gap.
Publisher’s Weekly gave How the Other Half Eats a starred review, calling it “deeply empathetic” and a “devastating portrait of ‘the scarcity, uncertainty, and anxiety that permeates so much of the American dietary experience’”.
Food52 features an excerpt from How the Other Half Eats about the challenges that children’s hunger and pickiness creates for mothers across social class.
Host Dani Nierenberg talked with me about inequality and the meaning of food.
The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed How the Other Half Eats, explaining how the book “weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative that shows the devastating impact — physical, emotional and economic — our industrial food system has not just on the “other half,” but upon us all.”
I discussed the landscape of food insecurity as food prices continue to soar.
Literary Hub published an excerpt from How the Other Half Eats about narratives of dietary acculturation and cultural tension.
Kirkus reviewed How the Other Half Eats, calling it “eye-opening” and “enlightening.”
The Six Fifty reviewed How the Other Half Eats - including an interview with the author - and describes how the book “distills complex social threads and weaves them into a singular, compelling tapestry, giving insight into different Bay Area families’ experiences as they navigate what to eat.”
I discussed How the Other Half Eats.
I authored an opinion piece, arguing that free school meal programs don’t just feed hungry kids — they’re a major win for moms.