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 … Read more
REASON #4 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from Barry Estabrook: “To uncover the truth behind how our modern food system works, Tracie M. McMillan took jobs in a supermarket produce section, a chain restaurant kitchen, and the fields along side migrant laborers. If you eat, you owe it to yourself to read this masterful … Read more
REASON #5 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from James Oseland, Saveur magazine: “Tracie McMillan has written a remarkable book for right now—a book that smartly tells us what is wrong with what we eat and how we might improve it. But what is even more remarkable about the book is how deeply … Read more
Well, the trolls may be out in full force, but @Slate put up a lovely front image for #AWE. http://ow.ly/i/sOoM
REASON #6 to buy The American Way of Eating comes from Janet Poppendieck: “This is the book I’ve been waiting for ever since I started teaching about the American food system. It pulls you in with compelling stories of the real people who do the work, often exhausting and dangerous, that makes our American way … Read more
Great news: My initial account of working undercover at Applebee’s has gone up on Slate. Inside sources say it’s hanging out near the top of the “most emailed” list!
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
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