Mark Bittman (born February 17, 1950[1]) is an American food journalist, author, and former columnist for The New York Times.

He has been the recipient of numerous International Association of Culinary Professionals, Julia Child, and James Beard awards for his writing.

In 2014, Bittman appeared as a correspondent for the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously.

[6] In 2015, Bittman announced he would be leaving the New York Times to join Purple Carrot (which subsequently received press for its partnership with Tom Brady) as its chief innovation officer.

[10] In 2005 he published the books The Best Recipes in the World and Bittman Takes on America's Chefs, and hosted the Public Television series Bittman Takes on America's Chefs, which won the James Beard Award for best cooking series.

In 2009 he published the book Food Matters, which covers food-related topics such as environmental challenges, lifestyle diseases, overproduction and over-consumption of meat and simple carbohydrates.

[11] In 2010 Bittman created The Food Matters Cookbook, an expansion of the principles and recipes in his prior book.

In 2021, he published Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal, in which he argues that free market capitalism and corporate farming contribute to the major public health and environmental issues in modern agriculture.