Amy Bentley is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. A historian with interests in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of food, she is the author of Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity (University of Illinois Press, 1998) and Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet (University of California Press, 2014). Inventing Baby Food was a finalist for the James Beard Award and the American Society for Food Studies Best Book Award.