Boston woman takes top spot in Fortune and Food & Wine’s ‘Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink’ list
Emily Broad Leib
A Boston woman was ranked No. 1 in Fortune and Food & Wine’s third annual “Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink” list.
Emily Broad Leib, the founder and director of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, was chosen because of her work fighting against the hunger epidemic, Food & Wine said on its website. Broad Lieb’s work focuses on legislation to tackle labeling and make donating simpler.
“For most foods the date on the label is about freshness, not safety,” Broad Leib said to Food & Wine. “There are no guidelines at the federal level and inconsistent ones on the state level that are not based on actual science. We want to make labeling laws clearer, so when people pick up a yogurt, they know when it’s OK to eat it and when to throw it out.”
Broad Leib’s focus is also on increasing accessibility to healthy food, preventing diet-related diseases, stopping food waste, and making it easier for small and sustainable food producers to enter the market, according to her Harvard Law School biography.
Another Boston local, chef Barbara Lynch, also made the list, taking 12th place. Raised in a South Boston housing project, she grew a cooking empire with restaurants such as No. 9 Park, B&G Oysters, and Menton, and created her own foundation to teach students about nutrition, cooking, and entrepreneurial skills, Food & Wine said. She also served as a guest judge on “Top Chef” Boston in 2014.
Fortune and Food & Wine said they considered hundreds of “entrepreneurs, activists, and idealists” for the list and chose those who have had the greatest impact on food and drink in the last year.
Check out the full list here.
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