Tracie McMillan’s The American Way of Eating (2012) should be required reading for any American who eats regularly.
One blurb describes it as “Nickled and Dimed meets Fast Food Nation”;that pretty much sums it up.
The author picks garlic in California, works produce in Wal-Mart and in an a New York City Applebees. All in all, it’s not a pretty story.
For all of the talk of “foodies” and “locavores,” the vast majority of us live on mass-produced (and often virtually tasteless) crap that is picked and prepared by the bottom rung of the 99%.
Read reviews in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.