ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SAM KASS was senior advisor for nutrition policy in the Obama administration. An MIT Media Lab Fellow, he is now an advisor to and investor in food technology start-ups focused on health and sustainability and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017. One of Michelle Obama’s longest-serving advisors, Kass was the executive director of the First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative, and helped her create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he was trained as a chef by one of Austria’s most notable chefs, Christian Domschitz, in Vienna.