The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

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Bittman appeared with Gwyneth Paltrow and Mario Batali in a PBS series called Spain. Bittman has appeared on NBC's The Today Show and NPR's All Things Considered and appeared as a guest judge on the Food Network competition series Chopped.

He is a columnist for The New York Times. 1950) is an American food journalist and author. Mark Bittman (born c.