“Marketplace,” American Public Media • Feb. 21, 2012
Check out my interview with the incomparable Kai Ryssdal at Marketplace from American Public Media on NPR this afternoon! Fair warning: I may sound nervous and if so, I ask you consider that it is entirely disorienting to talk TO a voice that has only ever talked AT you for your entire adult life. I … Read more
I”m going to work on speaking a little more clearly when I”m being recorded, but I had such good time talking with Kirkus Review’s Karen Calabria — and I can’t help but blush at her introduction: McMillan paints a searing portrait of the way we regard and consume food in America and makes a winning … Read more
C-SPAN • Feb. 21, 2012
Tracie McMillan reports on America’s food industry, from how the country’s food is grown and produced to what is being eaten and how wages and cost affect our level of nutrition. Ms. McMillan spent 2009 working throughout the system, from an industrial farm in California and a produce section at a Walmart near Detroit to a chain restaurant kitchen in Brooklyn.
Heritage Radio Network • Feb. 20, 2012
This week on Let’s Eat In takes a hard look at elitism in our American food system. Host Cathy Erway is joined by investigative journalist Tracie McMillan who has just written The American Way of Eating, an expose of the myths that surround the working class and their food ways.
had a total blast with @cathyerway on @heritage_radio: Elitism in food, let’s eliminate it. http://t.co/VW2H5mDw
I love Cathy Erway‘s smart prose and practical but adventurous cooking, so I”m extra-excited to sit in on her radio program today at 1:00 p.m. for Heritage Radio. Check it out today or download the podcast for later!
I’ll be talking about The American Way of Eating on NewsTalk 106-108FM, Ireland’s Independent National Public Radio today at 11 am EST (4 pm in Dublin). Really enjoyed the pre-interview chat with the producer Brian O’Neill last week; should be fun. And they’ve got 16,000 followers on Facebook, so I assume someone will be listening! … Read more
Simon & Schuster • Feb. 20, 2012 Tracie McMillan talks about The American Way of Eating. To learn more about Simon & Schuster click here.
edible Radio • Jan. 25, 2012
What if you can’t afford $9 tomatoes?
That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn’t escape as she watched the debate about America’s meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food’s true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters.
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