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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

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