The Good Life • Feb. 22, 2012
On Salon.com, Emma Mustich talks to Tracie McMillan, the author of “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table,” about whether we have the inalienable right to eat fresh food. While in Thomas Jefferson’s day, the poor ate less fresh food than the rich, now most American single guys spend less than one percent of their income on fresh produce, but up to half their food dollars on eating out.
Salon • Feb. 22, 2012
You may not be truly shocked by any single statistic in Tracie McMillan’s new book, “The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table” — but by the time you finish reading, you’ll definitely feel the impact of her cumulative case.
The Boston Globe • Feb. 22, 2012
With the rise of farmers’ markets and community-supported agriculture, and books like Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma’’ and Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle,’’ the drumbeat that people should be eating healthily, locally, and sustainably has gotten louder and more insistent. “The American Way of Eating’’ is Tracie McMillan’s riposte to the argument that Americans need to eat better. Of course we should – and most want to, she writes. But how can we? What are the hurdles facing us?
“Marketplace,” American Public Media • Feb. 21, 2012
Check out my interview with the incomparable Kai Ryssdal at Marketplace from American Public Media on NPR this afternoon! Fair warning: I may sound nervous and if so, I ask you consider that it is entirely disorienting to talk TO a voice that has only ever talked AT you for your entire adult life. I … Read more
What I find most humbling about the positive reviews coming in is that there is broad disagreement about the BEST PARTS! Cleveland Plain Dealer says of the farm labor section: These are the books’ best chapters, contrasting the warmth and camaraderie of the workers with their harsh economic reality and often unfair treatment at the … Read more
I”m going to work on speaking a little more clearly when I”m being recorded, but I had such good time talking with Kirkus Review’s Karen Calabria — and I can’t help but blush at her introduction: McMillan paints a searing portrait of the way we regard and consume food in America and makes a winning … Read more
Cleveland Plain Dealer • Feb. 21, 2012
Why do we do it, America? Why do we eat a cheeseburger and fries for lunch instead of bringing carrot sticks and hummus from home? Why, in the supermarket, do we walk past the produce bins to reach the frozen pizza?
We know better.
C-SPAN • Feb. 21, 2012
Tracie McMillan reports on America’s food industry, from how the country’s food is grown and produced to what is being eaten and how wages and cost affect our level of nutrition. Ms. McMillan spent 2009 working throughout the system, from an industrial farm in California and a produce section at a Walmart near Detroit to a chain restaurant kitchen in Brooklyn.
A very nice write up from @BookPage! http://ow.ly/9bqjB
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