Media

PODCAST & RADIO

• Esculent Season 6: Food Scientists, co-hosted with Elizabeth McQueen 
• The Reality of Ultra-Processed Food Pt 2, Food Truths Podcast, Spoon Radio Network, August 2025
  
• How Mistrust and Misinformation Fuel the Processed Food Debate, Good Food with Evan Kleiman (KCRW), June 2025
• How California's New Ultra Processed Food Law will Transform School Lunches, Capital Public Radio, November 2025
• The Idea of Real Food, Esculent Podcast, March 2025
• Food Facts are not the Answer to Food Fears, Eat This Podcast, February 2025
• Plant Based Milks Go Mainstream, Forum, KQED Radio, March 2023
• Understanding is Not Enough: Power, Patents, and Big Questions, Red To Green Food Tech Sustainability Podcast 
• Food Politics, UC Davis' Unfold Podcast, 2019
  
• Política del Mole/The Politics of Mole, Cal Ag Roots Project Podcast, 2018
• Health Nuts, BackStory Radio with the American History Guys, 2014

• Food Culture USA: The Power of the Burger, Deutschlandfunk, 2014

VIDEO

• Processed Food and the Politics of Communication, Food Thinkers, Centre for Food Policy, October 2026
• You are What you Eat and Drink. UCTV and Berry Good Foods, 2024
• Real Food, Real Facts: Truth, Politics, and Power in the US Food and Information Landscape,  Humanities On the Edge, Post-Truth Futures, April 2019
• Beyond the Science: Thinking Culturally and Contextually about What Makes Food Good, Keynote Address 2016 UVM Food Systems Summit
• Things We Like: Culture's Impact on Preference,  2015 Specialty Coffee Association of America
• Imperfection Salad, Lunch Love Community Documentary Series

PRINT

• RFK Jr Says He is Ending the War on Protein: It Doesn't Exist, Wired, January 2o26
• RFK Jr Just Flipped the Food Pyramid to Create a Funnel of Performative Masculinity, Mother Jones, January 2026
• How Weight Loss Drugs Have Changed Thanksgiving, Financial Times, November 2025
• Food Fights, Brown Alumni Magazine, Feature, June-August 2025
• Trad Wives, MAHA Moms and the Influence of "Radical Homemaking," FoodPrint, December 2025
• What is Processed Food? It Depends Who You Ask, UC Davis Letters and Sciences Magazine, 2025
• Newsom aims to limit unhealthy food in California, getting ahead of Trump administration and RFK Jr. Los Angeles Times January 2025
• Weekend Reading: Real Food, Real Facts. Marion Nestle's Food Politics Blog, 2024
• Endowed Professor in Food, Wine and Culture Established at UC Davis. CAES News, 2024
• Milk Has Lost All Meaning. The Atlantic . 2023
• Interview with the Association for the Study of Food and Society. 2019.
• Transparency, Dietary Reform & the Future of Food. University of Vermont Food Feed. 2016.
• Diners, restaurants go 'plant forward' to aid planet, animals. SF Chronicle. 2015.
• Looking Like Money: How Wellness Became the New Luxury Status Symbol. Vogue. 2015.
• No Bare Hands Rule in California Sparks Opposition. Food Safety News. 2014. 
• ​What does 'eating right' really mean? UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Food Blog. 2013.
• Dietary Literacy: Charlotte Biltekoff On New Questions for the Food Movement. 2012.
• Bingeing on Celebrity Weight Battles. The New York Times. 2009.​​

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS​

• Q&A with Charlotte Biltekoff answering a few good questions about Real Food, Real Facts
• The promise of Transparency. Food Fatness and Fitness: Critical Perspectives. 2013.
• Eat Right Here: The Cultural Politics of Ethical Eating. Utne Reader.  2013.
• Eating Right in America takes the The Page 99 Test. 2013.

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