Born 1955 on Long Island. A journalist by training, a gardener by obsession. For twenty years he wrote about food, agriculture, and the human relationship to the other species we eat and grow.
The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) and In Defense of Food (2008) reshaped the public conversation about what's on the American plate. In 2018 he turned to another subject long considered unrespectable — psychedelics — and with How to Change Your Mind did for that field what his earlier work did for food.
He teaches at UC Berkeley and Harvard. His voice is the one American journalism tends to produce at its best: curious, precise, and never afraid to change its mind.
How to Change Your Mind
The book that opened the mainstream conversation about psychedelic medicine and therapeutic potential.
Omnivore's Dilemma
Four meals, traced from field to plate. The book that made a generation think about where food comes from.
The Omnivore's Dilemma
A natural history of four meals — the most important book on food and agriculture of the past 20 years.