‘The American Way of Eating’

Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

Tracie McMillan worked on farms and in restaurants, then wrote about what she saw for her book “The American Way of Eating.”

One of the first things to like about Tracie McMillan, the author of “The American Way of Eating,” is her forthrightness. She’s a blue-collar girl who grew up eating a lot of Tuna Helper and Ortega Taco Dinners because her mother was gravely ill for a decade, and her father, who sold lawn equipment, had little time to cook. About these box meals, she says, “I liked them.”        

Reviewed at The New York Times