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The Peter Schiff Show • Feb. 23, 2012
Tracie McMillan, Brooklyn-based food journalist & author of the just-released The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
AlterNet • Feb. 23, 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.
I had a wonderful time talking to the smart, thoughtful reporter Emma Mustich over at Salon.com — and it shows in this great Q&A Salon just posted with me: To start: You may not be truly shocked by any single statistic in Tracie McMillan’s new book, “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, … Read more
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?
Love, love, love that this quote made it into the write-up: The only people who believe that poor people only like junk food have never met a poor person,” [McMillan] said. Kudos to Eleanor West for knowing what’s up!
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.
Salon • Feb. 22, 2012
You may not be truly shocked by any single statistic in Tracie McMillan’s new book, “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table” — but by the time you finish reading, you’ll definitely feel the impact of her cumulative case.
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