Sandwiched between her book tour dates in California and Detroit, the Gastronomy program hosted Tracie McMillan<\/a> on March 29 at Boston University<\/a>\u00a0for a lecture and book signing.<\/p>\n The oldest of three girls, Tracie grew up in rural Michigan. After working her way through NYU, Tracie began her writing career as managing editor at City<\/em> Limits<\/em><\/a>, where she also began writing on what interested her: the stories of how working families make a living.<\/p>\n The American Way of Eating<\/em> contains inalienable truths of eating in America, among them:<\/p>\n The Gastronomy program was honored to host this important contributor to the ongoing discussion of how we can improve the American food system.<\/p>\n Learn More about\u00a0The American Way of Eating<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emily is a current gastronomy student and graduate assistant, editing the Gastronomy at BU blog, January-August, 2012. Check out her research in food studies, nutrition, and public health on her blog,\u00a0emilycontois.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Emily Contois No, you’re not in a Memorial Day Weekend time warp. I am indeed posting about an event that occurred in March in, ahem, May. I can tell you the boring story of what I was buried under when this fabulous event took place, or I can simply get to the heart of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2012\/05\/tracie08.jpg\" "\\"Tracie")
<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2012\/05\/tracie23.jpg\" "\\"Tracie23\\"")
<\/a>Already an award-winning journalist, the now New York Times best selling, The American Way of Eating<\/a>,<\/em> is Tracie\u2019s first book, which has earned a plethora of positive reviews<\/a> from literary critics and food scholars alike.\u00a0While summarized as a nonfiction project examining food and class in America, this is a work that addresses in a highly accessible way nearly every aspect of eating in this country.<\/p>\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2012\/05\/tracie28.jpg\" "\\"Tracie")
<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2012\/05\/tracie44.jpg\" "\\"Tracie44\\"")
<\/a>