Paleo Runners • Feb. 28, 2012
Tracie McMillan spent 3yrs working undercover in the food industry. She learned a lot about the industrial food system off which we subsist. Her pursuits’ results are in her new book: “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table”
Absolutely worth reading this Wall Street Journal review from Aram Bakashian. He enjoyed the book but finds most of the research specious. Basically: As long as Ms. McMillan concentrates on what she actually saw and did, she has an interesting story to tell and she tells it well…But she does have an unfortunate weakness for … Read more
Epicurious • Feb. 28, 2012
Our sister site Bon Appétit interviews author Tracie McMillan this week on her new book The American Way of Eating.
McMillan, a New York-based journalist from rural Michigan, used her undercover experiences at Walmart, Applebees, and as a produce picker to chronicle the poverty in America through the prism of food.
great write up (and pitch-perfect critique) of #AWE over @MetroNewYork from @Vmanapat http://ow.ly/9k8xT
The Leonard Lopate Show • Feb. 27, 2012
Tracie McMillan examines why we eat the way we do in America and how we can change it. She describes what it was like to work, eat, and live alongside the working poor to see how Americans eat when price matters.
From Susan Ager’s thoughtful review of The American Way of Eating for Minneapolis’ Star Tribune: these pages will leave you with vivid, challenging images of how food is harvested, sold and prepared (loosely speaking) at casual restaurants
Metro • Feb. 27, 2012
According to the panel of experts at Housing Work’s “The Anti-Food Foodies,” a discussion organized to celebrate the publication of Tracie McMillan’s “The American Way of Eating,” that answer is yes.
“The American Way of Eating” is a first person account of how food is grown, picked, and processed, and consumed in this country. McMillan starts at the farm level, picking a sorting various crops from grapes to garlic before moving on to jobs at Walmart and then finally an Applebees in New York City.
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