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Sachi, even as a very esteemed journalist, do you sometimes get caught up in believing something because you see a headline that says, study show?

I love studies show. It means nothing and everything. I love to say it. I love to read it.

I love study show when it's always about like cheese. It's always like study show that eating

four million pounds of cheese a year actually means you're super healthy and very cool and everybody

likes you. And it's always like the dairy law be paid for the study.

That's exactly it.

If I saw something that was like,

study show eating hot dogs is good for you.

I wouldn't question it.

I'd be like, yeah, of course it is.

Well, today, Sachi, I'm going to tell you about someone

who took extreme liberties when it came to the results of his own studies and how he changed

how Americans consume food for the worst.

It's 2015 and John Becker is reading an email.

And the more he reads, the angrier he becomes.

John is in his mid-30s with spiky brown hair

and a square face that matches his squared-off glasses.

It's not the email that has John so upset,

it's the attachment that came with it, the comic strip.

But John isn't laughing because this cartoon is trashing his family's legacy.

John's great-grandmother, Irma Rombauer, is the author of Joy of Cooking, the beloved

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