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Food with Mark Bittman: Cory Booker

The New Jersey senator may represent our best possible future.

Published April 9, 2025

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Today we’re revisiting my 2022 interview with Senator Cory Booker, who is principled, intelligent, and brave, and is my hero in many ways.

Listen to Cory Booker on Food with Mark Bittman

If you follow Senator Booker on any social media, you’ll see that he’s constantly posting forward-thinking little rants about everything; he’s also among the strongest senators on food, in defending farms and farmers. And last week, as you probably know, he stood up in the Senate and spoke for 25 hours, defending democracy and assailing the Trump administration for the completely indefensible things that it’s doing, without breaks.

So: It’s a great time to bring this episode back.

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