The Peter Schiff Show • Feb. 23, 2012
Tracie McMillan, Brooklyn-based food journalist & author of the just-released The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System
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. Continue reading “What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System”
Dispatches From Bitter America – 970 WFLA
970 WFLA • Feb. 23, 2012
Tracie McMillan on The American Way of Eating. Continue reading “Dispatches From Bitter America – 970 WFLA”
Walmart’s war on the American food system
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. Continue reading “Walmart’s war on the American food system”
The journey from farm to the dinner table
“Marketplace,” American Public Media • Feb. 21, 2012
Book Discussion on The American Way of Eating at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
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. Continue reading “Book Discussion on The American Way of Eating at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe”
Eat Your Words – Episode 98 – Heritage Radio Network
Heritage Radio Network • Feb. 20, 2012
This week on Let’s Eat In takes a hard look at elitism in our American food system. Host Cathy Erway is joined by investigative journalist Tracie McMillan who has just written The American Way of Eating, an expose of the myths that surround the working class and their food ways. Continue reading “Eat Your Words – Episode 98 – Heritage Radio Network”
Catch me on Ireland’s national independent talk radio! Today, 11 AM EST
I’ll be talking about The American Way of Eating on NewsTalk 106-108FM, Ireland’s Independent National Public Radio today at 11 am EST (4 pm in Dublin). Really enjoyed the pre-interview chat with the producer Brian O’Neill last week; should be fun. And they’ve got 16,000 followers on Facebook, so I assume someone will be listening!
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Tracie McMillan on her book “The American Way of Eating”
Simon & Schuster • Feb. 20, 2012
Tracie McMillan talks about The American Way of Eating. To learn more about Simon & Schuster click here.
Episode 114: Kitchen Sync with Tracie McMillan
edible Radio • Jan. 25, 2012
What if you can’t afford $9 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. Continue reading “Episode 114: Kitchen Sync with Tracie McMillan”