Margot Finn

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Margot Finn earned her Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, where she now teaches as a lecturer in the Applied Liberal Arts. She is the author of Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution and tweets @smargot_finn.

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The Cultural Logic of Calories and Body Types

By Margot Finn • November 2, 2017

We were promised calorie labels. New York City has required them in chain restaurants since 2008 and California since 2009, but the Affordable Care Act mandated them nationwide. In April 2016, the FDA issued a “final rule” on the calorie-labeling requirement, resolving questions like whether movie theaters and alcoholic beverages were included (they were), and… Read more →