The Splendid Table • Aug. 25, 2012
Jay McInerney joins us with his new wine book, The Juice. Tracie McMillan has gone undercover in the American food industry, and we look at the vegetarian traditions in Morocco with Jeff Koehler.
Tracie McMillan
The American Way of Eating: A Conversation With Tracie McMillan
CSRWire • Aug. 20, 2012
Got food? Many of those who are bringing in America’s harvest and serving it to us aren’t paid enough to put good, healthy food reliably on the table. That’s what journalist Tracie McMillan found when she set out to report the story of these workers and what their plight says about the American way of eating.
I’m humbled: @CQResearcher, info source for Congress, uses #AWE to frame their Farm Bill report. #NowThatsImpact
CQ Researcher • Aug. 10, 2012 When investigative journalist Tracie McMillan spent a year working in the U.S. food system — cutting garlic in California fields, cleaning produce at Walmart and garnishing plates at a chain restaurant — she learned a hard truth: Healthy meals were barely affordable on wages of $8 per hour or … Read more
Where does your grocery money go? Mostly not to the farmers
CNN.com eatocracy • Aug. 8, 2012
A few months ago, a small farmer in the Northeast approached me at a conference, intense and red-faced. How could I say that Americans shouldn’t pay more for their food?
She sold lettuce and beets to well-heeled women, their ears dangling gold and fingers sporting diamonds. Yet many of them balked at the prospect of paying an extra dollar per pound. To grow her food without extensive chemicals, and to sell her wares at market, she needed to fetch a higher price. Surely, couldn’t these women pay more?
Serious Reads: The American Way of Eating, by Tracie McMillan
Seriouseats.com • Aug. 5, 2012
It’s common knowledge that our food industry is dependent upon the cheap labor of scores of workers in all kinds of service jobs. But the stories of these workers are often untold. Even in a time when talk about food—what to eat, how to eat it, and where to get the best stuff—is pervasive in all forms of media, undocumented, underpaid workers are left out of the conversation.
right. Video link of that Rachel Maddow thing.
Finally getting around to embedding a copy of my filmed TV appearances. In case you’ve been sitting around, anxiously awaiting a way to stare at me chatter away on screen, you can now readily find such entertainment: Rachel Maddow Show, March 7
