Corby Kummer
@ckummer.bsky.social
Executive Director, Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, senior editor of The Atlantic, senior lecturer at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Honored to contribute to Pete Wells' series on home cooking and health. Changing your food environment is the first and most important change you can make for yourself. Read his story in The New York Times: https://cooking.nytimes.com/article/pete-wells-kitchen-health-cooking
To Eat Healthier, Our Critic Went to the Source: His Kitchen
In the second part of a monthlong series, Pete Wells and experts say the easiest way to a better diet is to surround yourself with the right foods.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Honored to contribute to Pete Wells' series on home cooking and health. Changing your food environment is the first and most important change you can make for yourself. Read his story in The New York Times: https://cooking.nytimes.com/article/pete-wells-kitchen-health-cooking
Zeke Emanuel's book party for Eat Your Ice Cream at Dolcezza. His new book distills rigorous science into common-sense wellness advice. His key insight? Social engagement for living better & longer. Watch us on Boston Public Radio: https://ow.ly/l7sO50XVHn3
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Zeke Emanuel's book party for Eat Your Ice Cream at Dolcezza. His new book distills rigorous science into common-sense wellness advice. His key insight? Social engagement for living better & longer. Watch us on Boston Public Radio: https://ow.ly/l7sO50XVHn3
The youngest member of our adopted Atlanta family, John Henry Collins, was formally made an Eagle Scout at the Court of Honor this afternoon, like his twin uncles--the closest by far I ever came to the Scouts. Their and their families' dedication to service and each other was moving and remarkable.
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
The youngest member of our adopted Atlanta family, John Henry Collins, was formally made an Eagle Scout at the Court of Honor this afternoon, like his twin uncles--the closest by far I ever came to the Scouts. Their and their families' dedication to service and each other was moving and remarkable.
"Today, I am about 55 pounds lighter than I was at my zenith, a loss roughly equivalent to dropping an entire male basset hound."
The start of Pete Wells's new series on changing his diet is delightfully written, as usual, and all thoughtful common sense. cooking.nytimes.com/article/our-...
The start of Pete Wells's new series on changing his diet is delightfully written, as usual, and all thoughtful common sense. cooking.nytimes.com/article/our-...
Our Former Restaurant Critic Changed His Eating Habits. You Can, Too.
Pete Wells tells how he recovered from an out-of-control diet. And each week in January, he and experts will suggest ways to reset your own appetite.
cooking.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"Today, I am about 55 pounds lighter than I was at my zenith, a loss roughly equivalent to dropping an entire male basset hound."
The start of Pete Wells's new series on changing his diet is delightfully written, as usual, and all thoughtful common sense. cooking.nytimes.com/article/our-...
The start of Pete Wells's new series on changing his diet is delightfully written, as usual, and all thoughtful common sense. cooking.nytimes.com/article/our-...
The good in today's new Dietary Guidelines: reducing "highly processed" foods, term that seems fine since there's no agreed-on definition of ultra-processed foods: “clear, straightforward, supported by science," says @marionnestle.bsky.social.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/d...
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/d...
January 7, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The good in today's new Dietary Guidelines: reducing "highly processed" foods, term that seems fine since there's no agreed-on definition of ultra-processed foods: “clear, straightforward, supported by science," says @marionnestle.bsky.social.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/d...
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/d...
I never know where the conversation will go on #BostonPublicRadio! talking food trends and policy—and somehow spent half the segment on celtuce, a vegetable so magnificently ugly I've never actually seen one in real life.
Hope you take a moment to listen!
Hope you take a moment to listen!
Cabbage is IN for 2026, celtuce is still too ugly to live, and Margery and Jim "disagree" about whether ice cream is "chewy." @ckummer.bsky.social kicked off 2026 on Boston Public Radio.
Listen to the full segment 🎧: aspenfood.org?p=2236&previ...
#FoodPolicy #BostonPublicRadio #FoodTrends2026
Listen to the full segment 🎧: aspenfood.org?p=2236&previ...
#FoodPolicy #BostonPublicRadio #FoodTrends2026
The Great Celtuce Debate - Food & Society
Corby Kummer kicked off 2026 with a whirlwind tour of [...]
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January 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I never know where the conversation will go on #BostonPublicRadio! talking food trends and policy—and somehow spent half the segment on celtuce, a vegetable so magnificently ugly I've never actually seen one in real life.
Hope you take a moment to listen!
Hope you take a moment to listen!
New year, same mission: fix the food system. But 2026 feels different—have momentum, partnerships, and a community of fellows who are actually making things happen. Grateful to be part of this work. Here's to building more longer tables.
January 5, 2026 at 10:56 PM
New year, same mission: fix the food system. But 2026 feels different—have momentum, partnerships, and a community of fellows who are actually making things happen. Grateful to be part of this work. Here's to building more longer tables.
@ChefJoseAndres gets it: the next generation of food leaders needs support NOW. His Longer Tables Fund just made our fellowship exponentially more powerful. Grateful doesn't begin to cover it. Let's build those longer tables. 🙏
https://vimeo.com/1119870410
https://vimeo.com/1119870410
Longer Tables Funds Makes Transformational Gift to Food Leaders Fellowship
This is "Longer Tables Funds Makes Transformational Gift to Food Leaders Fellowship" by Food and Society on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…
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December 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
@ChefJoseAndres gets it: the next generation of food leaders needs support NOW. His Longer Tables Fund just made our fellowship exponentially more powerful. Grateful doesn't begin to cover it. Let's build those longer tables. 🙏
https://vimeo.com/1119870410
https://vimeo.com/1119870410
There will be a quiz at the end! Always fun with Margery & Jim on @BosPublicRadio. More: https://aspenfood.org/2025/12/23/may-your-panettone-be-light/
December 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There will be a quiz at the end! Always fun with Margery & Jim on @BosPublicRadio. More: https://aspenfood.org/2025/12/23/may-your-panettone-be-light/
Reposted by Corby Kummer
May your panettone be light! @ckummer.bsky.social reveals the wonders of this holiday bread with Margery & Jim on Boston Public Radio. More: aspenfood.org/2025/12/23/m...
December 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
May your panettone be light! @ckummer.bsky.social reveals the wonders of this holiday bread with Margery & Jim on Boston Public Radio. More: aspenfood.org/2025/12/23/m...
Spent the year in rooms with people who actually DO Food is Medicine work—not just talk about it. The insights? Game-changing. The energy? Infectious. The future? Bright.
This year's Food is Medicine convenings brought together the people doing the work—from community orgs to indigenous health leaders.
Thanks to the Ardmore Institute of Health for partnering with us to host these important convenings.
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#FoodIsMedicine #HealthEquity
Thanks to the Ardmore Institute of Health for partnering with us to host these important convenings.
www.aspenfood.org/fim
#FoodIsMedicine #HealthEquity
Food is Medicine Initiative - Food & Society
our advisors
Over half of American adults suffer from at least one chronic, diet-related disease. Though food is the culprit, it can also be the cure: food and nutrition interventions can aid in p...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Spent the year in rooms with people who actually DO Food is Medicine work—not just talk about it. The insights? Game-changing. The energy? Infectious. The future? Bright.
My piece on panettone and pandoro in @theatlantic.com, in which I call pandoro a "star-shaped golden mountain of rich, buttery bread without raisins or candied fruit and with a finer, denser crumb than panettone’s."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
December 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My piece on panettone and pandoro in @theatlantic.com, in which I call pandoro a "star-shaped golden mountain of rich, buttery bread without raisins or candied fruit and with a finer, denser crumb than panettone’s."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
When you bring together three cohorts of @aspenfood.bsky.social Food Leaders Fellows to one room, connections become friendships, ideas become collaborations. I can only imagine what will happen at next year's reunion of FOUR cohorts!
2025 marked our first multi-cohort Food Leaders Fellows reunion! Beyond networking events, fellowship seminars lay the foundation of a lifelong movement of leaders working together to build a more fair, sustainable, and healthy future.
More: ow.ly/SAQh50XLCHj
More: ow.ly/SAQh50XLCHj
Aspen Food Leaders Fellows Starkville and Reunion May 2025
Food & Society at the Aspen Institute hosted the Food Leaders Fellowship seminar and reunion in Starkville, MS. Meet some members of the third and second cohort…
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December 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
When you bring together three cohorts of @aspenfood.bsky.social Food Leaders Fellows to one room, connections become friendships, ideas become collaborations. I can only imagine what will happen at next year's reunion of FOUR cohorts!
2025 Recap: 18 brilliant food leaders finished their fellowship journey Food & Society at the Aspen Institute They started as impressive individuals. They left as a force!
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
2025 Recap: 18 brilliant food leaders finished their fellowship journey Food & Society at the Aspen Institute They started as impressive individuals. They left as a force!
Can give us all hope.
I just gave a talk this a.m. about a book to some 11th graders at a nearby high school. And they were so smart and curious and aware--so much more than I and my cohort were at their age--that I'm sitting in the parking lot smiling and filled with lunatic optimism about what is coming.
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Can give us all hope.
Reposted by Corby Kummer
@ckummer.bsky.social discusses a recent @nytimes.com story on decaf, and his research writing The Joy of Coffee. Final word: Give those beans a chance—your sleep schedule might thank you!
Listen: aspenfood.org/2025/12/08/2...
#DecafDoneRight #CoffeeCulture
Listen: aspenfood.org/2025/12/08/2...
#DecafDoneRight #CoffeeCulture
Decaf-alon: Food Policy, Tariffs, and Decaf Trends - Food & Society
In this Boston Public Radio segment, Corby discussed the ongoing [...]
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December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@ckummer.bsky.social discusses a recent @nytimes.com story on decaf, and his research writing The Joy of Coffee. Final word: Give those beans a chance—your sleep schedule might thank you!
Listen: aspenfood.org/2025/12/08/2...
#DecafDoneRight #CoffeeCulture
Listen: aspenfood.org/2025/12/08/2...
#DecafDoneRight #CoffeeCulture
Friend and colleague @healthcareactually.bsky.social (read her Substack) found this staring at her in the meat case of @wholefoods, thanks to Bobby Flay. If I'm anyplace, want to say I love it!
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Friend and colleague @healthcareactually.bsky.social (read her Substack) found this staring at her in the meat case of @wholefoods, thanks to Bobby Flay. If I'm anyplace, want to say I love it!
🚨 FINAL DAY: Food Leaders Fellowship applications close at MIDNIGHT Pacific Time
If you're an emerging food system leader ready to think bigger, this is your last chance to join our fifth cohort.
Apply now: aspenfoodleaders.org
#FoodLeaders #ApplicationDeadline
If you're an emerging food system leader ready to think bigger, this is your last chance to join our fifth cohort.
Apply now: aspenfoodleaders.org
#FoodLeaders #ApplicationDeadline
December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🚨 FINAL DAY: Food Leaders Fellowship applications close at MIDNIGHT Pacific Time
If you're an emerging food system leader ready to think bigger, this is your last chance to join our fifth cohort.
Apply now: aspenfoodleaders.org
#FoodLeaders #ApplicationDeadline
If you're an emerging food system leader ready to think bigger, this is your last chance to join our fifth cohort.
Apply now: aspenfoodleaders.org
#FoodLeaders #ApplicationDeadline
Our Food Leaders fellows come from everywhere: Corporate sustainability managers, nonprofit directors, farmers, policy experts, entrepreneurs. What unites them? A commitment to food system transformation. Applications to our 2026 cohort will close on December 5th.
More: aspenfoodleaders.org
More: aspenfoodleaders.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Our Food Leaders fellows come from everywhere: Corporate sustainability managers, nonprofit directors, farmers, policy experts, entrepreneurs. What unites them? A commitment to food system transformation. Applications to our 2026 cohort will close on December 5th.
More: aspenfoodleaders.org
More: aspenfoodleaders.org
RESTAURANT EMPIRE RISES & FALLS
Drew Nieporent's memoir "I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult" tells the story of the restaurateur who built 45+ restaurants including Tribeca Grill and Nobu with Robert De Niro. I talkws about the recent @nytimes.com review and the memoir on #bostonpublicradio
Drew Nieporent's memoir "I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult" tells the story of the restaurateur who built 45+ restaurants including Tribeca Grill and Nobu with Robert De Niro. I talkws about the recent @nytimes.com review and the memoir on #bostonpublicradio
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
RESTAURANT EMPIRE RISES & FALLS
Drew Nieporent's memoir "I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult" tells the story of the restaurateur who built 45+ restaurants including Tribeca Grill and Nobu with Robert De Niro. I talkws about the recent @nytimes.com review and the memoir on #bostonpublicradio
Drew Nieporent's memoir "I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult" tells the story of the restaurateur who built 45+ restaurants including Tribeca Grill and Nobu with Robert De Niro. I talkws about the recent @nytimes.com review and the memoir on #bostonpublicradio
Terrific turnout at festive celebration of Institute of Culinary Education's 50th anniversary, with Food & Society at the Aspen Institute's Leadership Council member Rick Smilow and Anna Smilow presiding, and fellow Leadership Council member Andy Pforzheimer and Food Leaders Fellow Anne E. McBride.
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Terrific turnout at festive celebration of Institute of Culinary Education's 50th anniversary, with Food & Society at the Aspen Institute's Leadership Council member Rick Smilow and Anna Smilow presiding, and fellow Leadership Council member Andy Pforzheimer and Food Leaders Fellow Anne E. McBride.
In print! Yes, @nytimes.com still publishes in print. Me on Drew Nieporent and the peaks and valleys of running restaurants--and how profoundly that world has changed since he was changing ideas of exciting, reasonably priced bars at Tribeca Grill and sushi at Nobu.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...
The Man Who Served Everything
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November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In print! Yes, @nytimes.com still publishes in print. Me on Drew Nieporent and the peaks and valleys of running restaurants--and how profoundly that world has changed since he was changing ideas of exciting, reasonably priced bars at Tribeca Grill and sushi at Nobu.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...
Powerful @nytimes with speakers saying just what hunger feels like. Drinking four liters of Poland Spring water and chewing gum to pretend you've eaten something. Giving whatever food you have to your children but feeling so listless you can't be present for them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
Opinion | ‘I’m Literally So Hungry, It’s All I Can Think Of’
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Powerful @nytimes with speakers saying just what hunger feels like. Drinking four liters of Poland Spring water and chewing gum to pretend you've eaten something. Giving whatever food you have to your children but feeling so listless you can't be present for them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
The Food Leaders Fellowship unites emerging leaders across sectors to ignite personal transformation and scalable change. Drawing on the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social stitute.bsky.social legacy of leadership fellowships, we're building a community of innovators. Applications: aspenfoodleaders.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The Food Leaders Fellowship unites emerging leaders across sectors to ignite personal transformation and scalable change. Drawing on the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social stitute.bsky.social legacy of leadership fellowships, we're building a community of innovators. Applications: aspenfoodleaders.org
With all the anxiety over the loss of Italian pasta in the US market no thanks to tariffs, now is a good time to look at why we should sorry: my @theatlantic.com explanation of what makes Italian pasta great. (Also the first US love letter to bronze dies.) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Pasta
An inquiry into a few fundamental questions: How did spaghetti and meatballs, a dish no Italian recognizes, become so popular here? What makes some brands of pasta much better than others? What’s so s...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
With all the anxiety over the loss of Italian pasta in the US market no thanks to tariffs, now is a good time to look at why we should sorry: my @theatlantic.com explanation of what makes Italian pasta great. (Also the first US love letter to bronze dies.) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...