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Is there something wrong with the way we eat?

March 23, 2024February 27, 2012

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.

Following the bumpy path of modern food: A reporter spends a year in the food industry

December 16, 2023February 24, 2012

Star Tribune • Feb. 24, 2012

If you’ve given any thought to how food finds its way to your mouth, you won’t be surprised by Tracie McMillan’s undercover reporting.

But these pages will leave you with vivid, challenging images of how food is harvested, sold and prepared (loosely speaking) at casual restaurants. You may, like the author, reel from the heat of California’s Central Valley farm fields.

The American Way of Eating and Food and the City

December 16, 2023February 23, 2012

Washington Independent Review of Books • Feb. 23, 2012

We’re all just “nine meals away from anarchy.” So concludes a British report on the state of food security in the United Kingdom. The situation is the same in the United States, where our food infrastructure — the vast and increasingly monopolized system that brings food from farm to plate — operates on such a tight schedule that any serious interruption would leave grocery store shelves bare within three days.

Best feeling ever? Reviewers who “get” the point of your work! Here’s looking at you, @TomPhilpott for @OnEarthMag

April 16, 2024February 23, 2012

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 Mark Bittman in New York Times

April 16, 2024February 23, 2012

#AWE is “excellent” says @bittman in Your Midweek News Links http://t.co/RHMwK6Au . I say THANK YOU MARK BITTMAN.

Dispatch From The Field: Joe says, “Ultimately, I found this book to be something of a call to arms.”

December 16, 2023February 23, 2012

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

April 16, 2024February 22, 2012

thanks Michael! RT @michaelpollan: Rave review for Tracie McMillan’s “The American Way of Eating”– congratulations http://t.co/iZh2qcOa

Lovely review from @BostonGlobe, calls #AWE “clear and essential” Thanks, Katie Bacon! http://ow.ly/9dL4m

April 16, 2024February 22, 2012

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

‘The American Way of Eating’ by Tracie McMillan

December 16, 2023February 22, 2012

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?

love this review from @clevelanddotcom (Plain Dealer!) http://ow.ly/9cgAI

April 16, 2024February 21, 2012

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