Tracie McMillan All Things Considered Yummy! • Dec. 19, 2012
I’m currently reading The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan. I love food; I love learning about it, growing it, cooking it, experiencing it with friends and family at new restaurants, canning it… you get the idea. My love of food is something simple, something natural, a love that has been around forever.
USFRA • Nov. 15, 2012 Today’s consumers have more access to information concerning food than ever before. During this panel, the conversation centered on the types of information consumers access and use to make decisions about their food choices. Questions addressed included – What more can be done to ensure consumers have access to the … Read more
Annarbor.com • Nov. 12, 2012
America is undergoing a food awakening. From celebrity chefs and the popular Food Network to farmers market, the good food movement, organic farming, and the growing population of foodies, Americans are eating, preparing, thinking and talking about good food like never before. But not everyone gets a seat at the table.
Forgive the delay in my informing you of this, but: The American Way of Eating, along with some impressive works like Will Allen and Charles Wilson’s Good Food Revolution, has been nominated for a Goodreads Reader’s Choice Award. So: GO VOTE! This is a real honor: Nominees are selected based on reader metrics, so that … Read more
Whole Living • November 2012
Tracie McMillan was highlighted on the Martha Stewart Whole Living magazine’s Food Visionary List.
Marketplace Money • Oct. 29, 2012
We come face to face with food every day — from the supermarket aisle to leftover cake at the office. But we can’t always take that food at face value. Understanding what we eat and what goes into the cost of what we eat takes a little digging.
Town Hall Seattle • Oct. 17, 2012
In 2009, award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan embarked on an undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America when price matters above all else. A project that embraced working and eating at every rung of the socio-economic ladder has culminated in McMillan’s The American Way of Eating, which goes beyond the food on her plate to examine the national priorities that put it there.
Whole Living • Oct. 15, 2012
They’re growing kale in abandoned lots, feeding hungry schoolkids, looking out for our laborers, and teaching us why cooking matters. In short, they’re changing our food world for the better. We toast them all.
I”m still getting used to seeing portraits of myself, but I can’t complain about the roster of talent that Martha Stewart Whole Living put me in line with in their November issue’s Food Visionary List: Dan Barber Wendell Berry Michael Bloomberg Jeff Bridges BrightFarms FoodCorps Maisie Greenawalt Will Harris Wes Jackson Abeni Massey Jim McGovern … Read more
Come check out the paperback of Rush Limbaugh’s least-favorite book, the NYT bestseller The American Way of Eating. I’ll be doing readings, talks and signings across the country to celebrate its publication in convenient paperback form, and would love to see you there! Check the calendar here, or just read below: Mon. 10/15 Washington D.C. … Read more
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