by Tracie McMillan
I was browsing through audible and came across the “American Way of Eating” by Tracie McMillan and narrated by Hilary Huber. What caught my attention was this idea of why it is so difficult for so many Americans to eat well. In her book she describes how she takes on a series of unskilled jobs from ...
I enjoyed this book mostly for the look at the migrant workers that are employed to harvest the majority of produce that fills our grocery stores. One of the many things that I learned from this book was that organic crops can be sprayed with organic pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides. This se...
There's a lot of information here, much of it new to me. I knew, f'rinstance, that most people in the US have abysmal diets. I wasn't clear on some of the reasons why- including the fact that lots of people just plain never learn to cook from scratch and are flummoxed by a pile of ingredients with n...
As a former Michigander I appreciated the sections dealing with Detroit and the struggles of local residents to find good healthy food and the movement to take back sections of the city with community gardens. The sections on Applebee's will have have you rethinking your choice of a 'special' night...
As a former Michigander I appreciated the sections dealing with Detroit and the struggles of local residents to find good healthy food and the movement to take back sections of the city with community gardens. The sections on Applebee's will have have you rethinking your choice of a 'special' night...
As a former Michigander I appreciated the sections dealing with Detroit and the struggles of local residents to find good healthy food and the movement to take back sections of the city with community gardens. The sections on Applebee's will have have you rethinking your choice of a 'special' night...
An extensively researched and frequently disturbing look at the food industry in America, from the farms where it is grow to the supermarkets where it's sold to the restaurants where it's prepared and consumed. McMillan worked in all three of these areas as part of her research which make her observ...
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