CHARLOTTE BILTEKOFF
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Professor, American Studies and Food Science & Technology
Darrel Corti Endowed Professor in Food, Wine and Culture

University of California, Davis

New (ish) Book:
Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of knowledg
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Listen, read, or watch to get to know me:
Esculent Season 6: Food Scientists, co-hosted with Elizabeth McQueen 
The Reality of Ultra-Processed Food Pt 2, Spoon Radio Network Food Truths Podcast 
Food Fights, Brown Alumni Magazine
How Mistrust and Misinformation Fuel the Processed Food Debate, Good Food with Evan Kleiman (KCRW)
The Idea of Real Food, Esculent Podcast 
Food Facts are not the Answer to Food Fears, Eat This Podcast 
What is Processed Food? It Depends Who You Ask, UC Davis Letters and Science Magazine
Weekend Reading: Real Food, Real Facts, Marion Nestle's Food Politics Blog

Q&A with Charlotte Biltekoff, University of California Press
Endowed Professor in Food, Wine and Culture, UC Davis Letters and Science Magazine

Understanding is Not Enough: Power, Patents, and Big Questions on Red to Green Sustainable Food Tech Podcast
Member spotlight by the Association for the Study of Food and Society
Imperfection Salad, a short documentary film illustrating the key ideas in Eating Right in America
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Come see me in person:
2025-2026 Events
Jan 16, 2025 Omnivore Books in conversation with Elizabeth McQueen (San Francisco)
Feb 2, 2025 California Groundbreakers Enlightenment Salon in conversation with Vanessa Richardson (Sacramento)
Feb 4, 2025 UC Davis Covered in conversation with Julie Guthman, UC Davis
Feb 20, 2025 UCLA Rothman Family Institute For Food Studies and Institute for Society and Genetics (LA)
March 3, 2025 Arizona State University SFIS Speaker Series
July 14, 2025 IFT First: How Can Companies Earn Trust By Combating Misinformation
September 3, 2025 In Conversation with Pati Jinich, KVIE Sacramento, Crest Theater Sacramento
Sept 9-10, 2025 Food For All: Media, Communication and Democracy (keynote) University of Lille
October 22, 2025 Processed Food and the Politics of Communication, Food Thinkers, City University of London Centre for Food Policy (video)
February 19, 2026 Sweet Thursday Author Series, Lafayette Public Library
February 23, 2026 Harvard Business School Women's Association - Future of Food group, online
February 28, 2026 Grains of Connection, conversation with Reem Assil, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis
March 5, 2025 Sustenence: On Hunger, conversation with Dana Simmons, UCHRI
March 9, 2026 Feast and Famine, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University 
March 13, 2026 COMPAS Panel: Food and Democracy, Center for Ethics and Human Values Ohio State University 
March 19, 2026 "The Wellness to Fascism Pipeline" Panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco





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