![]() The company is developing nail polish that changes color in the presence of date rape drugs. In making the simple case that-city or country, rich or poor-everyone wants good food, McMillan guarantees that talking about dinner will never be the same again. 9.03M Last Raised 5.54M 7 yrs ago About Undercover Colors Undercover Colors is a fashion company working to prevent sexual assault. Chronicling her own experience and that of the Mexican garlic crews, Midwestern produce managers, and Caribbean line cooks with whom she works, McMillan goes beyond the food on her plate to explore the national priorities that put it there.įearlessly reported and beautifully written, The American Way of Eating goes beyond statistics and culture wars to deliver a book that is fiercely honest, strikingly intelligent, and compulsively readable. Reporting from California fields, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit, and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan examines the reality of our country’s food industry in this “clear and essential” ( The Boston Globe) work of reportage. The drug is detected once the nail covered in the Undercover Colors nail polish is immersed in a liquid or drink the wearer. When award-winning (and working-class) journalist Tracie McMillan saw foodies swooning over $9 organic tomatoes, she couldn’t help but wonder: What about the rest of us? Why do working Americans eat the way we do? And what can we do to change it? To find out, McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed America, living and eating off her wages in each. Four male students at North Carolina State University developed Undercover Colors, a nail polish that can detect the presence of Rohypnol, Xanax and Gama Hydroxybutyrate- also known as GHB or the date rape drug. ![]() The New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism in the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed that fully investigates our food system to explain what keeps Americans from eating well-and what we can do about it. The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. ![]()
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