They Say, I Blog • March 1, 2012
The slogan of Applebee’s, a restaurant chain with several thousand locations internationally, states, “There’s no place like the neighborhood.” But which neighborhood? Whose neighborhood? Where? Continue reading “There’s No Place Like the Neighborhood: Tracie McMillan on Applebee’s and the American Dream”
Huff Post Food • Feb. 29, 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. Sound grim? It is, at times, but McMillan’s lively narrative and evident empathy for the people she encounters make her sojourn into the bowels of Big Food and Big Ag a pleasure to read. Continue reading “Going Undercover in the Belly of Our Beastly Food Chain”
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. Continue reading “Tracie McMillan on ‘The American Way of Eating’”
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. Continue reading “The Leonard Lopate Show”
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Bon Appétit • Feb. 26, 2012
To write her new book, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, Tracie McMillan spent months working on farms and in restaurants. Continue reading “Tracie McMillan on The American Way of Eating (and Cooking)”
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Lanigan and Malone • Feb. 24, 2012
Lanigan and Malone presents, Tracie McMillan and “The American Eating Way”, and the Majic Deal- Nauti Mermaid. Continue reading “The Lanigan and Malone Show”
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