Back to school with UCLA's Food Studies program

Yes, food studies at the university level is a thing — as it should be. All the joys and ills of human life — health, the environment, social equity — are a venn diagram with food. Jack Bobo , the Executive Director of the UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies , has an impressive resume. He was the Director of Global Food and Water Policy at The Nature Conservancy and a senior advisor on global food policy at the U.S. Department of State. And, because you never know where life will take you, he has an official entry in Wookieepedia . A friend of his from junior high who earned a PhD in paleontology got a call, one day, from Lucasfilm to help them track down locations in Tunisia. So he ended up working for Lucasfilm and writing several best-selling Star Wars books. "One night,