Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman is most famous for his more than 20 cookbooks, including the "How to Cook Everything" series, and his revolutionary "VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00" approach to diet. Bittman’s most recent book is Dinner for Everyone. He’s also become a significant voice challenging how our current food system fails in almost every way to provide the most basic essentials for human life — real, good food. And he’s exploring how innovators around the world are doing just that. A former New York Times food writer, Bittman is one of the few people who can speak with authority on virtually all aspects of food.

Bittman is currently special advisor on food policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series. He is also the editor in chief of Heated. His most recent book is his history of food and humanity, "Animal, Vegetable, Junk."

Bittman’s 2007 TED talk has had more than three million views and he has spoken at dozens of universities and conferences. In addition to the "How to Cook Everything" series and The New York Times number-one bestseller, "VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00,:Bittman is currently special advisor on food policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series. He is also the editor in chief of Heated. His most recent book is his history of food and humanity, Animal, Vegetable, Junk." Bittman is the author of the award-winning "Food Matters" and of more than twenty other books. For more than two decades he wrote popular and compelling stories about food in the Times, where he became the lead food writer for the Sunday Magazine. He has written for nearly every major newspaper in the United States and for many magazines. He has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-award-winning Years of Living Dangerously, and he is regularly featured on the Today Show.