Jezebel • March 3, 2012
Applebee’s may be great place to wash down your cheese-infused dinner with an Oreo milkshake (they still have those, yes?), but, according to an undercover reporter who spent time on the prep line at one of the popular restaurant chains, its male-dominated kitchens simmer with sexual aggression.
Colorlines • March 2, 2012
In America, it’s not just eating well that’s solely for the rich. Increasingly, eating healthfully is something only the well-off can do as well.
The Majority Report with Sam Seder • March 1, 2013
Sam on Andrew Breitbarts death. Also, Tracie McMillan talks experiencing our food system from fields to Walmart and Applebees. And Occupy Wall Street takes issue with monied donors, Jeff Smith discusses.
Civil Eats • March 1, 2012
Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table takes us on a vivid and poignant tour of a place we don’t really want to go: the mostly hidden, sometimes horrible world of the workers who form the backbone of our cheap, industrialized food chain.
Wisconsin Public Radio • March 1, 2012
Can the average American eat well in today’s society? Join Joy Cardin and her guest after eight, who went undercover in the food industry to investigate how we eat.
The David Sirota Show • March 1, 2012
Tracie McMillan our special guest to talk about her book The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. What if you can”t afford nine-dollar tomatoes.
The Fiscal Times • March 1, 2012
With the number of overweight Americans skyrocketing, and the health care costs associated with obesity at nearly $150 billion a year, it’s hard to believe that only 5 percent of the $18 billion in farm subsidies the government spent in 2010 went to fruit and vegetables. Corn and soy – key ingredients for processed foods and fatty proteins – got the lion’s share with 42 percent.
They Say, I Blog • March 1, 2012
The slogan of Applebee’s, a restaurant chain with several thousand locations internationally, states, “There’s no place like the neighborhood.” But which neighborhood? Whose neighborhood? Where?
Huff Post Food • Feb. 29, 2012
Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table takes us on a vivid and poignant tour of a place we don’t really want to go: the mostly hidden, sometimes horrible world of the workers who form the backbone of our cheap, industrialized food chain. Sound grim? It is, at times, but McMillan’s lively narrative and evident empathy for the people she encounters make her sojourn into the bowels of Big Food and Big Ag a pleasure to read.
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