The Progressive Populist • May 15, 2012
When journalist Tracie McMillan decided to go undercover for a look at our food supply chain, she likely didn’t expect to be sidelined by tennis elbow. Turns out when you’re cutting garlic all day long there’s a high risk of epicondylitis, which cut short one of the many jobs McMillan took on to trace the paths food takes between farm and table.
Columbia Journalism Review • April 11, 2012
Irritating. That’s the word that comes to mind when reflecting on Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table.
I’ve no idea who Francecso Segoni is, nor have I seen FineDiningLovers before — but the site is beautiful, and the review is quite thoughtful, so I encourage you to read it!
The American Way of Eating by Tracie McMillan (READ @ MPL).
Fine Dining Lovers • April 2, 2012
It is often assumed that you have to be affluent in order to care about food and good eating. Apparently, though, that this is just one of the many commonplace beliefs that doesn’t stand the simplest test of all: number-checking.
Cape Ann Beacon • March 28, 2012
Why is it so hard to eat well, journalist Tracie McMillan wondered. Good food, such as the produce America grows in abundance, is relatively expensive even though only 14 cents of each dollar spent on produce ends up back on the farm it came from.
And “food deserts,” as McMillan calls them, stretch all over America where you have to drive 10 or 15 miles to get to a supermarket, making healthy food harder to find than the ubiquitous Happy Meal.
In his review for the Seattle Times, Alan Moores does a nice job of summing up one of AWE’s primary points: McMillan’s overarching point here is the disconnect between America’s overall wealth and its inability to eat well Always nice to see that someone read most of the book, not just the promotional materials!
The Seattle Times • March 24, 2012
It’s been more than 13 years since writer Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover, making beds, cleaning houses, working in the women’s-wear department at a Walmart, and opening America’s eyes to the bleak realities of our working poor in her groundbreaking Harper’s Magazine story, “Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America,” later expanded into a book by the same title.
Sojourners • March 21, 2012
I love great food. Last night, I made fresh linguini with organic whole wheat flour and local, free-range eggs, and topped them with from-scratch meatballs made with organic beef, fresh parsley from my garden, fresh Parmesan–you get the idea. And in a few days, I’ll be celebrating a special occasion at one of the finest restaurants in the Northeast, where the produce is local and seasonal and sustainable and where the experience of eating is a little like visiting a museum of fine arts where you get to taste all the masterpieces. And yesterday, I planted the first spring vegetables in my garden. I’m a member of Slow Food USA, for cryin’ out loud.
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