“[A] massive forthcoming event to take away our freedom,” Rush Limbaugh on Tracie McMillan’s “The American Way of Eating.” 

We are very proud to announce that Tracie McMillan has won the 2013 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for her account of her journey into the underbelly of the American food system. McMillan went undercover as a farm worker, a WalMart grocery worker, and a kitchen worker at Applebee’s. The book documents the lives of the people who produce our food, and explains the economic realities that stand in the way of a healthy diet for all. 

“The American Way of Eating” joins the ranks of great progressive reporting on food and class in America, a category that includes such classics as “Fast Food Nation,” and “No Shame in My Game,” and “Nicle and Dimed.”

Learn more about McMillan and her book.