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Tracie McMillan

Tracie McMillan is the author of The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, and a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.

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How I Survived Applebee’s Kitchen

Reporter Tracie McMillan went to work at Applebee’s for a story. Being assaulted was one story too many.

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