AlterNet • Feb. 23, 2012
Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table takes us on a vivid and poignant tour of a place we don’t really want to go: the mostly hidden, sometimes horrible world of the workers who form the backbone of our cheap, industrialized food chain.
Philpott’s smart enough to pull out the loose threads in my book (and there are many! he was kind!) but in addition to saying that my writing “sparkles,” he really got the whole point of the book: In her important new book, The American Way of Eating, Tracie McMillan illuminates this murky yet vital sector … Read more
#AWE is “excellent” says @bittman in Your Midweek News Links http://t.co/RHMwK6Au . I say THANK YOU MARK BITTMAN.
The Tattered Cover Book Blog • Feb. 23, 2012
What if you can’t afford nine-dollar 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.
thanks Michael! RT @michaelpollan: Rave review for Tracie McMillan’s “The American Way of Eating”– congratulations http://t.co/iZh2qcOa
I had a wonderful time talking to the smart, thoughtful reporter Emma Mustich over at Salon.com — and it shows in this great Q&A Salon just posted with me: To start: You may not be truly shocked by any single statistic in Tracie McMillan’s new book, “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, … Read more
Food Republic • Feb. 22, 2012
We all know that person who can barely eat dinner because they’re too busy snapping photos and waxing lyrical about the amuse-bouche. Some call them foodies. Many call them annoying. Of course, we all love to eat, but the national obsession with food can be overwhelming, if not exhausting. To address the nature of the foodie, and foodie-ism, a panel of food writers, authors and editors who call themselves “anti-foodies” gathered together last night at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City to ask the question: Has Food Worship Jumped the Shark?
Love, love, love that this quote made it into the write-up: The only people who believe that poor people only like junk food have never met a poor person,” [McMillan] said. Kudos to Eleanor West for knowing what’s up!
What’s really gratifying is when reviewers — whether they like my prose or not — really get the point of the book: she comes to understand why many Americans rely on cheap, easy-to-cook, processed food. and Her tone is surer when she uses data to build her book’s main argument, which is both clear … Read more
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