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A review by devoeas
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan
4.0
The reporting and message, all fantastic. She goes in and leaves with a little bias as someone could.
The writing was a little uneven - unfortunately, a lot of, sometimes, qualifiers, as if, she was, intimately, unsure of presenting, in a way, solid conclusions. These also created some run-on sentences. She was also a little repetitive - sometimes evidence or points were repeated across chapters, even sometimes in sentences that came after each other (the same point, just reworded). The overuse of asterisks is also a little distracting, as a lot of the "footnotes" could just be included in the text.
But I can get through that for the great reporting, the human stories, the history mixed with present. Shows us where our food comes from at every level, without telling us what to eat or what not to eat - just presenting it, and letting us decide how much we want to be involved in the system.
The writing was a little uneven - unfortunately, a lot of, sometimes, qualifiers, as if, she was, intimately, unsure of presenting, in a way, solid conclusions. These also created some run-on sentences. She was also a little repetitive - sometimes evidence or points were repeated across chapters, even sometimes in sentences that came after each other (the same point, just reworded). The overuse of asterisks is also a little distracting, as a lot of the "footnotes" could just be included in the text.
But I can get through that for the great reporting, the human stories, the history mixed with present. Shows us where our food comes from at every level, without telling us what to eat or what not to eat - just presenting it, and letting us decide how much we want to be involved in the system.