The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table: Library Edition

from Vantine

If reading McMillan's description of the conversation between a self-described "foodie" and a working class woman talking about the care her grandmother took with food doesn't open your eyes to the class divide nothing will. While comparisons to Nickle and Dimed are impossible to ignore, McMillan...

from EpicTale

"The American Way of Eating" (AWE) was a worthwhile read, despite the book's kind of goofy subtitle "Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table." It is to Tracie McMillan's credit that she carefully investigated, by means of personal albeit temporary immersion, reasons w...

from gayla.bassham

Really 4 1/2 stars. Along the lines of Nickeled and Dimed, but less doctrinaire. A very engaging read that will make you think about where your food comes from.

from arosoff

I don't think this book is groundbreaking. It gives a lot of information that's available elsewhere and packages it together with a personal narrative. That, however, may make it more useful and accessible. The three part structure works well and helps highlight different phases of now we eat. ...

from mstrust

McMillan goes undercover to pick produce in central California, work at Walmart in Detroit and in the kitchen of a New York City Applebee's. Her goal is to find out what it takes to get the fruits and vegetables on the table of the average American, while learning how corporations get their stock...