What to Eat - An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating

Honors and Awards

2007

  • Nation’s Restaurant News 50: Health Authorities
  • University of California Alumni Association Centennial, 100 Berkeley Luminaries
  • James Beard Foundation award for best reference book, What to Eat
  • Cooking Light (August, 118-121), featured as one of three “Movers & Taste Shapers [who help] improve the way we eat”
  • Listed as an entry in Food Snob’s Dictionary, by David Kamp and Marion Rosenfeld, Broadway Books
  • Natural Gourmet Institute Award for Excellence in Health-Supportive Food Education

2006

  • California Public Health Association–North, Bridging the Gap Award for Excellence in Science and Public Policy Writing
  • San Francisco Bay Guardian 2006 Best of the Bay Award: Food Politics Lecture Series, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley
  • Appointed Visiting Professor, Nutrition Sciences, Cornell University (Honorary)

2005

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Fellow
  • National Committee for Quality Assurance 2005 Health Quality Award
  • American Society for Nutritional Sciences, Elected Fellow

2004

  • Saveur Magazine, The Saveur 100 Favorites
  • New York Daily News, 100 Women Who Shape Our City
  • Alumna of the Year, University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health
  • Time Magazine, Obesity Warrior
  • American Public Health Association, David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health
  • Organic Style Environmental Power 50 List “Guardian of Good Eating”

2003

  • James Beard Foundation Who’s Who in Food and Beverage in America (lifetime achievement)
  • James Beard Foundation book award, literary category, Food Politics
  • Vanity Fair magazine, Food Snob’s Dictionary (entry)
  • San Francisco Chronicle best books of 2003, Safe Food

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