Q&A with food writer Mark Bittman and Kathleen Finlay from the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, moderated by film critic Alissa Wilkinson

Tuesday, Oct. 27 2026, 6:30

• Mark Bittman is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series, the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6, and Animal, Vegetable, Junk. He wrote for the Times for more than three decades, and became the country’s first food-focused Op-Ed columnist for a major news publication. He has hosted two television series and been featured in two others, including the Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. Mr. Bittman is currently the editor-in-chief of The Bittman Project, the host of the podcast Food with Mark Bittman, and the founder of the innovative nonprofit restaurant, Community Kitchen.
• Kathleen Finlay is the President of the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, the Founder of Pleiades, a national constellation of women+ changemakers, an advisor at Regenerative California, a judge for Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Accelerator, and serves a Co-Director of the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy of Rome, founded by Alice Waters. An experienced organizational leader, writer and network builder, she is particularly interested in empowering women and historically marginalized individuals to address our most pressing issues, especially humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Kathleen lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her partner the food writer and activist Mark Bittman and often visits her homeland of Bermuda.
• Alissa Wilkinson is a Writer and teacher living in New York City. She’s a movie critic at the New York Times, and the author of We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (2025) and Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women (2022). Alissa Wilkinson has regularly spoken on art and criticism as well as teaching courses in creative nonfiction writing and the humanities since 2009. She writes about cinema, art, media ecology, technology, food, and history — and, especially, where they all intersect.

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