The Gary Null Show • March 15, 2012
Tracie McMillan is a former investigative reporter from New York who has focused on poverty and welfare issues.
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Meet Tracie McMillan, ‘overeducated’ food justice writer
Grist • March 12, 2012
Before she wrote The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, Tracie McMillan was a welfare and poverty reporter in New York City.
A lesson in fields and Walmart on ‘American Way of Eating’
The Buffalo News • March 11, 2012
Tracie McMillan didn’t grow up eating organic heirloom arugula. Her mom was sick and her dad worked, so it was meals from boxes or other easy food. Tuna Helper was a good night.
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Tracie on The Rachel Maddow Show
MSNBC • March 8, 2012 Rachel Maddow interviews Tracie McMillan about Rush Limbaugh’s attack on The American Way of Eating. Learn more about The Rachel Maddow Show clip here.
Rush Limbaugh vs. Tracie McMillan: McMillan Wins With The American Way of Eating
Knight Science Journalism at MIT • March 7, 2012
Fresh from his apology for describing Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student as a “slut” who should have sex and “post the videos online so we can all watch,” Rush Limbaugh has now gone after the writer Tracie McMillan and her book, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Wal-Mart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table. The book is the product of a nearly year-long investigative reporting project in which McMillan worked with, lived with, and ate with the working poor.
The American Way of Eating: The Book Foodies—and Rush Limbaugh—Are Fretting About
Time • March 7, 2012
I’ve often found myself, in this strange time we are living in, wishing I were Norwegian, and never more so than when engaging with the debate over American foodways. There are some unalterable facts about how the U.S. feeds itself today, or, as Tracie McMillan puts it in her fine new book, The American Way of Eating. One is that a lot of people are fat and unhealthy; another is that not enough people have enough nutritious food to eat; and a third is that the first two groups of people are generally to be found among the poor.
Undercover at Walmart
Making Change at Walmart • March 7, 2012
“What’s it like to work at Walmart?”
I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked this question. At first, my working-class roots got the better of me. I’d smile icily to whatever well-intentioned person had asked the question, and ask earnestly, “Have you ever had a crummy job? It’s like that.”
Here’s The Woman Rush Limbaugh Is Attacking Today; ‘Totally Bizarre,’ She Says
Forbes • March 6, 2012
Say you’re a conservative radio host who’s losing advertisers left and right for saying some deeply misinformed and misogynistic things about the lifestyle of a highly-educated single woman, and now you need to change the conversation. How do you do that? If you’re Rush Limbaugh, you do it by attacking a different woman on the basis of her singleness, youth and education.
Rush Lashes Out at Another Accomplished Young Woman
Mother Jones • March 6, 2012
Undaunted by the fiasco of his misogynist diatribe against Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh has aimed his rhetorical bile at another accomplished young woman (via Lindsay Beyerstein). This time his target is an acquaintance of mine: Tracie McMillan, author of the new book The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table.
