Joan Dye Gussow, Food Movement Pioneer, Dies at 96

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Joan Dye Gussow, Food Movement Pioneer, Dies at 96

Joan Dye Gussow, a nutrition leader, environmentalist, and avid gardener, died on Friday in her home in Piermont, New York. She was 96. Gussow was widely hailed as what the New York Times called the “matriarch of the eat-locally-think-globally food movement.” She was a trailblazer in nutrition education and a staunch critic of the industrialized food system, one of the first to emphasize the link between health and methods of food production. Nu…