What to Eat Now

The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters

By: Marion Nestle

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

What to Eat Now is a clear-eyed, no-nonsense guide to the most important food questions on our plate today. How do we make informed dietary choices for ourselves, our families, and our communities?

In the twenty years since Marion Nestle's groundbreaking What to Eat first came out, food has undergone a radical change. The emergence of techno foods, the growth of corporate organics, and a surge of interest in food-delivery services reignited by the pandemic are just a few of the things that have altered how we think about how we eat.

Misinformation, disinformation, and corporate misdirection play a crucial and hard-to-see role in how the average shopper thinks about and chooses food.

In an aisle-by-aisle guide, Nestle takes us through the American supermarket. With persistence, wit, and common sense, she establishes the basics of good nutrition, food safety, and ethical and sustainable eating, and gives listeners a close-up look at the web of interests that food has to navigate before it gets to your shopping basket.

Above all else, What to Eat Now is a defense of real food and of the value of eating deliciously, mindfully, and responsibly.

©2006, 2025 Marion Nestle (P)2025 Tantor Media

Knowing the nuances of the food industry.

I really enjoyed her progression on the topics. The way she formatted the information. Well done..

Good but can be Better

The beginning is captivating but it slowly becomes a "I can Google this" book. Slightly disappointed but overall a decent book.

Very little new.

It’s amazing how little personal responsibility she asks of consumers. I do believe food companies manipulate us but omg, when she wrote that we can’t figure out the a serving size 8 times larger has more calories I was dumbfounded. I don’t recommend this book at all.

Interesting, well-written content. Poor narration.

The content is really interesting and well-written. The narrator's voice is pleasant, but the intonation is at times so terrible that is hard to make sense of the content. The first few chapters are the worst in terms of this. There is a random pause at one point and what appears to be some skipped words. Quite annoying. Requires some patience with the narration.