Corby Kummer
Corby Kummer is executive director of Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science, and a senior editor of The Atlantic, for which he was a longtime food columnist and originated a vertical on food, sustainability, policy, and food justice. He attended the Loomis-Chafee School and received a BA from Yale College.
He is the author of The Joy of Coffee and The Pleasures of Slow Food, the first book in English on the Slow Food movement, and has been restaurant critic of New York, Boston, and Atlanta Magazines and a food and food policy columnist for The New Republic. He has received six James Beard Journalism Awards. One of the country’s most widely quoted experts on food justice and food culture in the United States, Corby is a featured commentator on food and food policy every week on WGBH’s Boston Public Radio.
Spotlight
Death, to Wendell Berry, was an old familiar—if not exactly a friend, a constant, comforting companion. In his wonderful novel Jayber Crow, the narrator describes a friend coming up a path to the riverside cabin he fitted to end his days, beckoning him to join a sociable group on a front porch. This friend though, was long gone. Following him, the narrator comes to a genially seated line of his closest friends from the life he had built for himself as a barber and friend to all in Port William, the lightly fictionalized version of Berry’s native Port Royal, now all gone. “I knew where I was,” he tells the reader.
