Marketplace Money: Looking at the way we eat in America

Marketplace Money • Oct. 29, 2012

We come face to face with food every day — from the supermarket aisle to leftover cake at the office. But we can’t always take that food at face value. Understanding what we eat and what goes into the cost of what we eat takes a little digging.

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Book Club Pick: Tracie McMillan: Going Undercover in American Food Culture

Town Hall Seattle • Oct. 17, 2012

In 2009, award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan embarked on an undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America when price matters above all else. A project that embraced working and eating at every rung of the socio-economic ladder has culminated in McMillan’s The American Way of Eating, which goes beyond the food on her plate to examine the national priorities that put it there.

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Perspectives by Fenton and TedMed: The Obesity Crisis: Fake Food vs. Real Food

TedMed • Sept. 21, 2012

In a new video series co-produced by TEDMED and Fenton Studios, and filmed at TEDMED 2012, Tracie McMillan, author of “The American Way of Eating” and David Ludwig of Boston Children’s Hospital sat down with Lisa Witter to discuss the issue.

TEDMED is a multi-disciplinary community of innovators and leaders who share a common determination to create a better future in health and medicine. Learn more about TEDMED here.

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The Splendid Table: Ep. 515: The Juice

The Splendid Table  • Aug. 25, 2012

Jay McInerney joins us with his new wine book, The Juice. Tracie McMillan has gone undercover in the American food industry, and we look at the vegetarian traditions in Morocco with Jeff Koehler.

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The American Way of Eating: A Conversation With Tracie McMillan

CSRWire • Aug. 20, 2012

Got food? Many of those who are bringing in America’s harvest and serving it to us aren’t paid enough to put good, healthy food reliably on the table. That’s what journalist Tracie McMillan found when she set out to report the story of these workers and what their plight says about the American way of eating.

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right. Video link of that Rachel Maddow thing.

Finally getting around to embedding a copy of my filmed TV appearances. In case you’ve been sitting around, anxiously awaiting a way to stare at me chatter away on screen, you can now readily find such entertainment: Rachel Maddow Show, March 7

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