Top dollar for heated sidewalks while 1.2+ million New Yorkers too poor to heat their homes. #CantMakeThisUp

In 2011, the most recent year for which data is readily available: 1.2 million New Yorkers received help from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program  This weekend, the New York Times real estate section reported on a burgeoning market for heated sidewalks in the city’s tonier neighborhoods. Among the benefits: “It’s just really nice to have … Read more

February 2014 rears its chilly head

Looking for fun in February? Perhaps you’d enjoy catching one of my talks, in NYC and Philly. Hear about those, other upcoming talks, my favorite new reads and my wonderful new gig at Wesleyan here.

T. McMillan Feb 2014 Update: NYC, Philly and More

   Check out my upcoming talks in Philly and NYC; hear about my new professorship at Wesleyan, and hear about my favorite new journalistic projects! Feb 2014: Talks in NYC and Philly; teaching at Wesleyan and more! Tracie McMillan February 2014 new title: Professor I’m thrilled to announce that I just started the semester as a … Read more

A crazy year: Tracie McMillan’s 2013 update

  Fall and year-end round up for Tracie McMillan, author, The American Way of Eating. Is this email not displaying correctly? . Tracie McMillan Check it: Fall highlights, and many thanks, for a crazy year. new website! I loved iCompendium, who I would recommend ANY DAY,  but I needed to better-manage all my online text. So: courtsey … Read more

my crazy year: Year-End roundup

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the calm after the storm: autumn 2013

I can often be a whiner. But right now I’m feeling silent on that front, because the fall has been pretty amazing. I have had the incredible luck to be overwhelmingly busy with work, including reporting for two features that I’m actually excited about — big news for any freelancer. (Keep your eyes out for my byline, fingers crossed, in the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic.)

But I’ve also been privileged enough to be traveling to talk about The American Way of Eating and why having a frank conversation about food and class is important in today’s America. Here’s a quick recap below, mostly to give a shout out to the wonderful, generous people who’ve been hosting my writerly self all across the country (and generously helping me cover living expenses in the process)!

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What’s The Most Important Thing Food Labels Should Tell Us?

“All Things Considered,” NPR • Nov. 14, 2013

Food labels have become battlegrounds. Just last week, voters in Washington state narrowly defeated a measure that would have required food manufacturers to reveal whether their products contain genetically modified ingredients.

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How Americans Eat with Tracie McMillan

“Talk of Iowa,” Iowa Public Radio • Oct. 15, 2013

Recent movements addressing the obesity epidemic or industrial agriculture’s dominance attempt to change how Americans eat.  Tracie McMillan sets out to understand the American food system from the bottom-up in  her book, “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at WalMart, Applebees, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table.”  Host Charity Nebbe asks McMillan where our food comes from and how we can eat healthier. 

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McMillan offers ‘a voice the food world needs’

By Susan Futrell in Press Citizen • Oct. 14, 2013 Good books about food and farms are plentiful these days, and it’s hard to keep up with them all. But every once in awhile, a book comes along that you want to keep, re-read and loan to everyone you know. “The American Way of Eating,” … Read more

Review: Artful adaptation, solid performances mark ‘The American Way of Eating’ at Theatre UNI

WCF Courier • Oct. 14, 2013

CEDAR FALLS, IA – The energetic, passionate, and artful Theatre UNI production of “The American Way of Eating” will change your thoughts on food forever—and in only an hour.

This original adaptation of Tracie McMillan’s 2012 book of that name by UNI Theatre professor Matthew James Weedman (and his students) opened Thursday in the intimate Bertha Martin Theatre and will run through Sunday, Oct. 20.

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