Booklist Review • February 2012
McMillan takes us undercover inside three food-industry segments—farm, grocery store, and restaurant…
REASON #7 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from Ted Conover: “Tracie McMillan is gutsy, scrappy, and hard-working—you’d have to be to write this book. The American Way of Eating takes us local in a new way, exploring who works to get food from the field to the plates in front of us, … Read more
REASON #8 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from Warren Belasco, president of the Association for the Study of Food and Society: This is a wonderful introduction to the triumph and tragedy of the American food industry. Mixing compassionate participant observation with in depth, up-to-the-minute background research, Tracie McMillan takes us for an … Read more
As prep for a forthcoming review I have of Mary Mazzio’s lovely documentary on New York City’s Green Carts, The Apple Pushers, I’m finding I need a one-stop link to studies that complicate our understanding of food access. Herewith: The Institute of Medicine held a symposium on the topic in 2009. Most notably, they found … Read more
REASON #9 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA: “Tracie McMillan has written an extraordinary book. We are of course, all a part of the industrial food system because we all eat from it. But McMillan became a deeper part. Undercover, as a farm laborer, Walmart … Read more
I am nine days out from the publication date of The American Way of Eating. Let the countdown begin until you reach the day where you can buy it. I’ll be dribbling out reasons over the next nine days, counting back from ten. Reason # 10 to Buy a Copy of the American Way of … Read more
Great piece over at Politico on an economist’s study showing that Alabama’s stringent new immigration legislation is costing the state anywhere from $2 billion to $11 billion in lost revenues.
Booklist Review • February 2012
McMillan takes us undercover inside three food-industry segments—farm, grocery store, and restaurant…
edible Radio • Jan. 25, 2012
What if you can’t afford $9 tomatoes?
That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn’t escape as she watched the debate about America’s meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food’s true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters.
I’m delighted to say that book industry bible Publisher’s Weekly highlights The American Way of Eating in this week’s “Spring Offerings” issue, where editors culled from more than 11,000 titles to select the most interesting ones on offer — and AWE is one of them! It’s filed under PW’s Top Ten Picks in the social … Read more
Publishers Weekly • Jan. 20, 2012
As the 2012 presidential campaign shifts into high gear and talk of American values hits a fever pitch, this spring’s social science books offer a deeper dive for those not satisfied with the one-liners and sound bites offered on the campaign trail.