Author Talk “How the Other Half Eats” (Foster City)

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What don’t we know about food equality? Are food deserts the main problem, or is there more to it? Researcher Priya Fielding-Singh tells us all about it in her new book, How the Other Half Eats!

Join San Mateo County Libraries for a virtual author talk and Q&A with Priya Fielding-Singh, Ph.D.! Register to receive your Zoom invitation and for information on how to receive a free copy of How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequity in America. We have limited supply, so register early!

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Nutritional inequality has become an increasingly severe problem in America, and its impact dramatically increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the commonly-accepted argument is that food deserts are to blame, through her years of research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh, Ph.D. found that the problem is about far more than just food access. Her book, How the Other Half Eats, spotlights the state of food inequity in American society and argues that the problem doesn’t lie as much in our accessibility to healthy food but in the way we think and feel about the food we eat.

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Dr. Priya Fielding-Singh is a sociologist and assistant professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah where she researches, teaches and writes about families, health and inequality in America. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and completed her postdoctoral training as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford School of Medicine.

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