Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website RichardRhodes.com.
"Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and
perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating one's next
hamburger."-Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker
"Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a
splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge
is advanced."-Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard
"[Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great
mystery story."-Nancy Schapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul
de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters."-Beryl Lieff Benderly, San Jose Mercury
News
"An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat
industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story
beautifully."-John Schwartz, The Washington Post
"Classic medical detective story."- George Johnson, The New York
Times Book Review
"In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a
class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come
alive."-Peter Collier, Chicago Tribune
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