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Tracie McMillan

Tracie McMillan
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Tracie McMillan

A working-class transplant from rural Michigan, Brooklyn-based writer Tracie McMillan has written about food and class for a variety of publications including, The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper’s Magazine; Saveur; and Slate. After putting herself through New York University, she began reporting and from 2001 to 2005 she was the managing editor of the award-winning magazine City Limits. There, she won recognition from organizations ranging from the James Beard Foundation to World Hunger Year. Follow her at TracieMcMillan.com or @TMMcMillan.

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The American Way of Eating will be released on October 02, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 18, 2012
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The American Way of Eating will be released on February 21, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
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The American Way of Eating is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Chicago Magazine, April 27, 2012
...have much to do with obesity in the first place. The piece generated some good responses; for instance, Tracie McMillan, author of the new The American Way of Eating: [I]t’s good to complicate our thinking on this. Access has never been the only...
Sightline Daily, April 27, 2012
...me feeling homesick: Finding Portland from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo . Finally: I just finished, and loved, Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating . She spent time picking veggies on a California farm, stocking produce at...
Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2012
...day. Los Angeles Times Food Editor Russ Parsons sat down Saturday with authors Kathleen Flinn, Julie Guthman and Tracie McMillan to explore this back story in an L.A. Times Festival of Books panel called The Food Chain. Flinn, a former journalist and...
Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2012
...justice and other issues with authors Julie Guthman ("Weighing In"), Kathleen Flinn ("The Kitchen Counter Cooking School") and Tracie McMillan ("The American Way of Eating") at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Seeley G. Mudd Buildling. And at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in...
AccessAtlanta, April 3, 2012
..."The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table," by Tracie McMillan (Scribner, $25). Twenty percent of American shoppers buy most of their produce at Walmart, but when it comes to healthy foods such as...
Boston Magazine, March 29, 2012
...As Americans’ awareness and affinity for healthier food options has grown in the past decade (call it the Michael Pollan effect) author Tracie McMillan began to wonder how, exactly, a low-income family could afford to take part in food revolution if...
The Root, March 2, 2012
...s in part because the country’s food system is set up to produce exactly that outcome, says Tracie McMillan, who explores how Americans eat in her new book, “The American Way of Eating. Read about it at Colorlines. Lawsuit: Obama can't be president...
Mail Online UK, March 2, 2012
...the private realms of the food and drink industry. Researching for her book, The American Way of Eating, Tracie McMillan went undercover at some of the nation's most famous chains, including Walmart and Applebee's. At , she described the unending...
Business Insider, March 2, 2012
...For nearly a year, Tracie McMillan, a former editor at  City Limits , went undercover, working alongside Mexican garlic crews, produce managers at  Walmart  – the nation’s largest supplier of food – and Caribbean line...
Business Insider, March 2, 2012
...– key ingredients for processed foods and fatty proteins – got the lion's share with 42 percent. Tracie McMillan, author of the new book,  The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table , wanted...
Business Insider, March 2, 2012
...– key ingredients for processed foods and fatty proteins – got the lion's share with 42 percent. Tracie McMillan, author of the new book,  The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table , wanted...
Business Insider, March 2, 2012
...– key ingredients for processed foods and fatty proteins – got the lion's share with 42 percent. Tracie McMillan, author of the new book,  The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table , wanted...
Business Insider, March 2, 2012
...– key ingredients for processed foods and fatty proteins – got the lion's share with 42 percent. Tracie McMillan, author of the new book,  The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table , wanted...