Corby Kummer

Executive Director

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. One of the country’s most widely quoted experts on food justice and food culture in the United States, he is a featured commentator on food and food policy every week on WGBH’s Boston Public Radio. He has received six James Beard Journalism Awards.

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Blog Posts Of Interest

In Remembrance of Paula Zurcher, 1928-2021

Paula Zurcher was one of the three daughters of Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke, the founders of the Aspen Institute.

October 27, 2021

Corby Kummer

Blog Posts

For an Ailing Restaurant Sector, Public Health Is the Cure

It’s the job of public health officials across the country to protect restaurant operators and food service workers.

October 19, 2021

Corby Kummer

IDEAS Article IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Winter 2020/21 Longform

Editor’s Letter Winter 2020/21

After the pandemic struck, none of the Institute’s sudden ability to adapt and find new ways to engage would have been possible without the true hero of the Aspen Institute: Ben Eyler, the managing associate in the audio visual department.

December 1, 2020