A lecture scheduled for today with a famous food columnist and cookbook author was canceled Sunday evening.

Mark Bittman, who has written for the New York Times for 30 years, will not appear at the Englert Theater, 221 E. Washington St., this evening as had been planned by the University of Iowa Lecture Committee . His event will be rescheduled pending his availability.

The Lecture Committee declined to offer further information.

Bittman was scheduled to give the lecture “The Future of Food” as part of the UI’s “Food for Thought” theme this semester.