Rush Limbaugh Attacks Food Writer Tracie McMillan For Being ‘Young, Single White Woman’

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. Continue reading “Rush Limbaugh Attacks Food Writer Tracie McMillan For Being ‘Young, Single White Woman’”

Here’s The Woman Rush Limbaugh Is Attacking Today; ‘Totally Bizarre,’ She Says

Forbes • March 6, 2012

Say you’re a conservative radio host who’s losing advertisers left and right for saying some deeply misinformed and misogynistic things about the lifestyle of a highly-educated single woman, and now you need to change the conversation. How do you do that? If you’re Rush Limbaugh, you do it by attacking a different woman on the basis of her singleness, youth and education. Continue reading “Here’s The Woman Rush Limbaugh Is Attacking Today; ‘Totally Bizarre,’ She Says”

Best feeling ever? Reviewers who “get” the point of your work! Here’s looking at you, @TomPhilpott for @OnEarthMag

Philpott’s smart enough to pull out the loose threads in my book (and there are many! he was kind!) but in addition to saying that my writing “sparkles,” he really got the whole point of the book:

In her important new book, The American Way of Eating, Tracie McMillan illuminates this murky yet vital sector of our economy. In her year of research, she embedded herself in the Big Food trenches and (to paraphrase Kafka) scribbled down what she saw among the ruins…

McMillan has committed a brave act of immersion reportage, applying to the food system the techniques of Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic 2001 chronicle of working-poor life, Nickel and Dimed…McMillan brings to the topic one thing that Schlosser and Pollan didn’t: a hard-won sense of the U.S. class system, from the bottom looking up.

Thanks, Tom!

Has Food Worship Jumped The Shark?

Food Republic • Feb. 22, 2012

We all know that person who can barely eat dinner because they’re too busy snapping photos and waxing lyrical about the amuse-bouche. Some call them foodies. Many call them annoying. Of course, we all love to eat, but the national obsession with food can be overwhelming, if not exhausting. To address the nature of the foodie, and foodie-ism, a panel of food writers, authors and editors who call themselves “anti-foodies” gathered together last night at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City to ask the question: Has Food Worship Jumped the Shark? Continue reading “Has Food Worship Jumped The Shark?”

Get Walmart Out Of Your Kitchen: A Reason To Learn To Cook

The Good Life • Feb. 22, 2012

On Salon.com, Emma Mustich talks to Tracie McMillan, the author of “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table,” about whether we have the inalienable right to eat fresh food. While in Thomas Jefferson’s day, the poor ate less fresh food than the rich, now most American single guys spend less than one percent of their income on fresh produce, but up to half their food dollars on eating out. Continue reading “Get Walmart Out Of Your Kitchen: A Reason To Learn To Cook”

REASON #1: Eric Schlosser says I’m courageous and compassionate. (And he liked my book.)

REASON #1 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from Eric Schlosser:

“With much courage and compassion, McMillan explores the lives of those at the bottom of our food system. Here is a glimpse of the people who feed us–and the terrible price they pay. If we want to change the system, this is where we must begin.”

—Eric Schlosser, author, Fast Food Nation

The book goes on sale TOMORROW, Feb, 21.

Please buy it.

And if you are in New York, come celebrate with me at Housing Works to talk about “The Anti-Foodie Foodies” with Amanda Hesser, James Oseland, Annia Ciezadlo and Rev. Devanie Jackson, moderated by the lovely Erica Wides.

REASON #2: William Finnegan said it’s “an amazing book…Read it and your dinner will never look the same.” (And he liked it.)

REASON #2 to buy The American Way of Eating:

“This is an amazing book. Tracie McMillan will take any reader into new
territory.  The implacable fierceness of farmwork, the slovenliness behind the produce section at Walmart—prepare to be submerged in harsh little worlds and shocked. But McMillan keeps her cool, always presenting the context and the content of her struggles with enough analytic detachment to rough out a complete, and convincing, vision of food as a social good. Read her book and your dinner will never look the same.”

—William Finnegan, author, Cold New World

The book goes on sale Feb, 21.

Please buy it.

And if you are in New York, come celebrate with me at Housing Works to talk about “The Anti-Foodie Foodies” with Amanda Hesser, James Oseland, Annia Ciezadlo and Rev. Devanie Jackson, moderated by the lovely Erica Wides.

Reason #3: @_RajPatel says I have integrity and compassion., and offer an “eye-opening report.” (And he liked my book.)

REASON #3 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from Raj Patel:

“These tales lay bare the sinews, the minds, and the relationships that our food system exploits and discards. In a work of deep compassion and integrity, Tracie McMillan offers us an eye-opening report on the human cost of America’s cheap food.”

—Raj Patel, author, The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved

The book goes on sale Tuesday, Feb, 21.

Please buy it.

And if you are in New York, come celebrate with me at Housing Works to talk about “The Anti-Foodie Foodies” with Amanda Hesser, James Oseland, Annia Ciezadlo and Rev. Devanie Jackson, moderated by the lovely Erica Wides.