Amy Bentley is Professor of Food Studies in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and is co-founder of the NYU Urban Farm Lab and the Experimental Cuisine Collective.[1][2][3][4]
She completed her PhD in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her research interests are wide-ranging and include the social and cultural history of food, food systems, nutrition and health.[1] Her diverse interests in food studies have resulted in multiple publications in journals, books and on social media covering topics as diverse as the politicisation of domesticity under American food rationing in World War II to a review of anthropologist Sidney Mintz's examination of the sugar industry.[5][6][7]