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Mark Bittman joins Academia

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Mark Bittman joins Columbia's School of Public Health. 

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It's funny that the man has had so many jobs in the last few years. If I received his resumé, I'd question why the guy couldn't hold a job very long! xD

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I am wondering where all this is coming from. As far as I know he worked for the New York Times for some 18 years, left  for the Purple Carrot for a year and has now joined the faculty of Columbia University.  He is the author of a number of best-selling recipe books.  So what am I missing here?  I am hoping everybody has tongue-in-cheek and I'm just not getting the humour. 

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In brief: I don't think he belongs in academia. He can write another cookbook about "everything," but nothing he has done in the past has any connection to any academic course of study. He's teaching something called "Columbia and Food" - really? It reads like a joke. And I'm sure both he and Columbia will laugh all the way to the bank!

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The move to academia, particularly in a Public Health dept, doesn't surprise me as he seems to have a fairly longstanding interest in communication in this area.

 

13 minutes ago, cakewalk said:

nothing he has done in the past has any connection to any academic course of study

 

I'd say that depends on how you define a course of study.  Prior to the Purple Carrot, he did a 6 month stint as a visiting fellow at UC Berkeley where he lectured and contributed to the production of a food-centric video series titled, "California Matters" in conjunction with the Berkeley Food Institute and UC's Global Food Initiative.

This last move is less surprising to me than the Purple Carrot gig.

 

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