Columbia Journalism Review • April 11, 2012
Irritating. That’s the word that comes to mind when reflecting on Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table.
Media
Food And Our Priorities: A Talk With Tracie McMillan
Boston WBUR • April 10, 2012
America’s obesity rate is still the highest in the world. The government knows this – it spends more than a billion dollars every year on nutrition education. And we, too, know this. We know that fruits and vegetables and whole grains and olive oil are healthy; we know that sweets and saturated fat aren’t. In other words, we’re a country that knows how to eat well.
So why don’t we?
Shift Shapers: Tracie McMillan-American Way of Eating & Our Food Supply
Shift Shapers • April 9, 2012
From the food deserts that are America’s cities, to the hot dust devils of Central Valley farms, to the bright shining rows of plastic-shrouded vegetables at WalMart, Tracie McMillan knows something aboout America’s food supply.
The American Way of Eating Discussion at Boston University Metropolitan College
Boston University • April 6, 2012 Tracie McMillan talks about The American Way of Eating at Boston University as part of their Gastronomy Program lectures. Learn more about Boston University’s Gastronomy Program here.
‘The American Way Of Eating’ Author Tracie McMillan Goes Undercover At Metro Detroit Walmart
The Huffington Post • April 5, 2012
It took journalist Tracie McMillan five months and 115 phone calls to line up the job she was striving for: a produce stocker at Walmart.
thoughtful review of #AWE up @FineDiningLovers http://ow.ly/a2n5U
I’ve no idea who Francecso Segoni is, nor have I seen FineDiningLovers before — but the site is beautiful, and the review is quite thoughtful, so I encourage you to read it!
great review of #AWE in Milwaukee (READ @MPL)
The American Way of Eating by Tracie McMillan (READ @ MPL).
America, The Not So ‘Fast Food Nation’
Fine Dining Lovers • April 2, 2012
It is often assumed that you have to be affluent in order to care about food and good eating. Apparently, though, that this is just one of the many commonplace beliefs that doesn’t stand the simplest test of all: number-checking.
North Shore Book Notes: ‘The American Way of Eating’
Cape Ann Beacon • March 28, 2012
Why is it so hard to eat well, journalist Tracie McMillan wondered. Good food, such as the produce America grows in abundance, is relatively expensive even though only 14 cents of each dollar spent on produce ends up back on the farm it came from.
And “food deserts,” as McMillan calls them, stretch all over America where you have to drive 10 or 15 miles to get to a supermarket, making healthy food harder to find than the ubiquitous Happy Meal.
