Tracie McMillan Tracie McMillan joins Tommy Mischke to talk about her new book, “The American Way of Eating.” No Online Archive Available.
Tracie McMillan joins Michael Finney to talk about her new book, “The American Way of Eating.” No Online Archive Available
KQED Bay Area Bites • March 14, 2012
Tracie McMillan, who went undercover and worked with low-paid food and farm workers to pen The American Way of Eating, has had perhaps the wildest of rollercoaster rides since her book came out a few short weeks ago.
Institute For Agriculture and Trade Policy • March 14, 2012
Our global food system hinges on secrecy. The anonymous nature of where the food in our supermarket was produced brings one layer of secrecy. But even if you can solve that puzzle, how it was produced—and more specifically under what working conditions it was produced—remains completely hidden. This is the curtain that author Tracie McMillan pulls back in her remarkable new book, The American Way of Eating.
The Gary Null Show • March 15, 2012
Tracie McMillan is a former investigative reporter from New York who has focused on poverty and welfare issues.
Metro Times • March 13, 2012
Until last week, News Hits had been content to let others rail about Rush Limbaugh’s disgraceful three-day attack on Georgetown law school student Sandra Fluke. The reaction has been widespread and intense to Limbaugh calling Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” simply because she advocated having all employer health insurance plans — including those of religiously affiliated employers — be compelled to provide women with birth control.
Grist • March 12, 2012
Before she wrote The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, Tracie McMillan was a welfare and poverty reporter in New York City.
The Buffalo News • March 11, 2012
Tracie McMillan didn’t grow up eating organic heirloom arugula. Her mom was sick and her dad worked, so it was meals from boxes or other easy food. Tuna Helper was a good night.
The New York Times • March 11, 2012
The American Way of Eating reached #34 on The New York Times Best Sellers List the week of March 11, 2012.
Blistree.com • March 9, 2012
Watch out, ladies: Now that his advertisers’ mass exodus has forced Rush Limbaugh to back off from calling Sandra Fluke a slut and prostitute, he seems to be looking for new targets in our demographic. Earlier this week, Limbaugh spent 40 minutes insulting Tracie McMillan and her new book, “The American Way Of Eating,” about our country’s food system and what it’s like to eat for the working class.
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