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Marion Nestle - Marion Nestle is professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and the author of Food Politics, Safe Food, What to Eat, and Pet Food Politics. More

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She is the author of three prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised edition, 2007), Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003), and What to Eat (2006). Her most recent book is Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat. She writes the Food Matters column for The San Francisco Chronicle and blogs almost daily at Food Politics.
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Infographic: Local Farms in the Bronx and What They Grow

By Marion Nestle

Aug 2 2011, 12:59 PM ET Comment

Who says you can't grow vegetables in New York City? The Wall Street Journal says you can. If a Murdoch paper says so, it must be true. I've got ripe tomatoes on my terrace. But here's serious urban farming in the Bronx. Is local food a fad? I don't think so.

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This post also appears on Food Politics. Image via The Wall Street Journal.

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