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A review by k_lee_reads_it
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan
3.0
I've found lots of interesting information and ideas in this book.
My favorite thought is--
"The key to getting people to eat better isn't that they should spend more money, or even that they should spend more time. It's making the actual cooking of a meal into an easy choice, the obvious answer. And that only happens when people are as comfortable and confident in the kitchen as they are taking care of the other endless chores that come with running a modern family-- paying bills, cleaning the house, washing the car. It only happens, in other words, when we can cook well. It doesn't take advanced culinary acumen to know that making a pasta-and-ground beef one-skillet dinner from scratch isn't actually any more difficult than using a box, but it does take education and training."
My favorite thought is--
"The key to getting people to eat better isn't that they should spend more money, or even that they should spend more time. It's making the actual cooking of a meal into an easy choice, the obvious answer. And that only happens when people are as comfortable and confident in the kitchen as they are taking care of the other endless chores that come with running a modern family-- paying bills, cleaning the house, washing the car. It only happens, in other words, when we can cook well. It doesn't take advanced culinary acumen to know that making a pasta-and-ground beef one-skillet dinner from scratch isn't actually any more difficult than using a box, but it does take education and training."