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What the World Eats

by Faith D'Aluisio, Peter Menzel (Photographer)

4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 · rating details · 429 ratings · 124 reviews

Sitting down to a daily family meal has long been a tradition for billions of people. But in every corner of the world this age-old custom is rapidly changing. From increased trade between countries to the expansion of global food corporations like Kraft and Nestlé, current events are having a tremendous impact on our eating habits. Chances are your supermarket is stocking...more

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Published August 1st 2008 by Tricycle Press

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Jan 02, 2009 Carissa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

a fascinating photo essay by the same people who created the book "Material World", using the same format. Each country featured in the book is represented by one family (except for the US which has 3) photographed in their homes, surrounded by one week's worth of food. the food is painstakingly listed on the facing page, broken down by food group (dairy, meat, grains, etc.) and costs are listed, both in local currency and in the US equivalent. It is very, very sobering to see what a family in D...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Kristy Lange rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, young-adult, nbgs

What the World Eats offers a photographic study of families around the world. It details what each family eats during a week and gives a family profile. The book goes into depth describing food options and purchases. From Australia to Turkey, and from Bhutan to the United States, What the World Eats offers a unique, in-depth look at cultures across the globe just by examining the food on their tables.

Strengths: What the World Eats offers rich cultural details about different groups around the wo...more What the World Eats offers a photographic study of families around the world. It details what each family eats during a week and gives a family profile. The book goes into depth describing food options and purchases. From Australia to Turkey, and from Bhutan to the United States, What the World Eats offers a unique, in-depth look at cultures across the globe just by examining the food on their tables.

Strengths: What the World Eats offers rich cultural details about different groups around the world through an examination of the food a family consumes within a week. This unique way of presenting cultural information is definitely memorable, and the book is full of interesting, researched facts. The dialogue included and family relationships described were collected from interviews with members of the book’s featured families, making their stories much more relatable and realistic. The book goes quite in depth with its examination of how families survive and/or thrive with regard to the food they consume throughout the week, even breaking down the items and cost before our very eyes in a well-organized table for each household. What the World Eats includes each featured cultural group for a purpose: to gain a better understanding of the world in an inclusive cross-section of its wide variety of people. This book was well-organized and easy to follow. The author did her research and interviewed the families herself, commendable for this work of non-fiction. Precise vocabulary and figurative language is used throughout the book and, while it is written for a juvenile and young adult audience, it is void of didacticism. What the World Eats is full of compelling details, fascinating comparisons, and unexpected subjects. There is much personalized content, and a lot of new information. Over-all this is a well-written and well-rounded non-fiction piece.

Weaknesses: Although the author does a great job with balancing information for the most part, sometimes there is a bit more information for one cultural group than there is for another. What the World Eats would have also seemed a bit more organized if the fun facts spreads were compiled into a section at either the end or centermost point of the book, rather than being scattered throughout. Because of the scattered spreads, I felt interrupted as I attempted to read and compare one culture’s food habits to another’s.(less)

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Mar 05, 2013 Courtney rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: africa, australia, canada, day-to-day-life, england, poland, middle-east, non-fiction, u-s-a, china, south-america

Really interesting (well, the text bits, not the lists of groceries at least...). Shows families from a handful of countries around the world, and how much they consume in one week.
Each family is basically a separate chapter. You get the family photo first, with a block of text saying who is who, sitting with what is a weeks' worth of groceries for that family. The page facing it is a list of the groceries. Then you get a few pages of text telling you a bit about the family, culture, and countr...more Really interesting (well, the text bits, not the lists of groceries at least...). Shows families from a handful of countries around the world, and how much they consume in one week.
Each family is basically a separate chapter. You get the family photo first, with a block of text saying who is who, sitting with what is a weeks' worth of groceries for that family. The page facing it is a list of the groceries. Then you get a few pages of text telling you a bit about the family, culture, and country.
There are statistics dispersed throughout, including a few full pages like the one comparing different countries access to clean water or average life expectancies, as well as little statistic blocks in each chapter. These show different things, sometimes health stuff, sometimes things like the number of McDonalds in the country. ^_^ (Apparently there is one vegetarian Pizza Hut in the world, and it's in India.)
There are also little blocks written by the photographer, usually about his experiences while travelling to different countries, like trying deep fried starfish in China, or Guinea Pigs in Ecuador.
Another neat thing it has it recipes in some of the chapters. It's pretty random - personally I would have liked it if each chapter got a recipe, but I'm a cookbook nut. Some of them look interesting, and not much different from what I'd see someone making here, like the cheese quesadilla recipe (including instructions for making the tortillas), and others... Well, I probably won't be trying seal stew any-time soon, but that's just me. lol.
It's really interesting to read, even a lot of the statistical stuff. It's really easy to read, and understand. It's really eye opening when you consider what your family probably buys every week, and compares with some of the families in the book, or read about some of the things the families have gone through.
I think the chapters that stood out the most were the refugee family from Chad, which is made up of a mother and her 5 children, who live mostly on 4 bags of grain/flour every week, or the Polish family when they talk about their memories of growing up while under military rule (wiki says martial law started in '81. Between '81 and '90 or so, when they managed to elect a president, maybe?), and how many things the family's granddaughter take for granted they remember being special treats and luxuries they couldn't often get, like certain fruits or sweets.
I also really remember the one about the family from Greenland, but that's because while I was aware that the Inuit people here in Canada ate some of the things listed, I wasn't aware of all of them, or the fact that Greenland had a large Inuit population. The Australia, Equador, and Chinese ones were interesting for the 'culture shock' factor, too... I already mentioned the guinea pigs, and star fish, right?
I think the cultural/historical component was what I liked the best, but there are tons of really interesting facts to read about, and the photographer did a great job.(less)

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Mar 01, 2013 Kevin rated it 4 of 5 stars

What the world eats is an interesting time consuming book about what exactly people from every country eats . A problem in this story is how lob sided every country is with obesity and world hunger. For example a country like the United States with an obesity rate of 68.8 percent of Americans over weight or obese clearly has problems verses a country like Hati with 91.3 percent of Hatians left hungry. In the book I was reading the author was suggesting it is not how much food we eat, it is actua...more

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Dec 14, 2012 Max P-L rated it 4 of 5 stars

You probably know that Mexican people eat tacos, and Chinese people eat rice. In fact, you probably know what most people around the world eat. Or do you?..........And is that even what they eat? You probably don't know until you have read What the World Eats.

This book shows what many families all around the world eat in a week, and there are pictures for each family to give you a visual idea about what they eat. People all around the world eat many different things, most of which sound WAY unfa...more You probably know that Mexican people eat tacos, and Chinese people eat rice. In fact, you probably know what most people around the world eat. Or do you?..........And is that even what they eat? You probably don't know until you have read What the World Eats.

This book shows what many families all around the world eat in a week, and there are pictures for each family to give you a visual idea about what they eat. People all around the world eat many different things, most of which sound WAY unfamiliar. Have you ever heard of aiyish? Or parrotfish? Probably not. Aiyish is a thick porridge that many less wealthy people eat in Africa. Parrotfish are very colorful (they come in turquoise, purple, and even pokadots!) fish that is a delicious delicacy in Japan. And there are things that you have heard of but you never would have thought to be eaten by anyone. Believe it or not, seal skin is found delicious in Greenland! And in China they consider silkworm pupae to be a yummy desert!

Also, while some people have mounds of candy, chips, and delicious foods, other people have one bag of rice kernels per week for a family of six people. Some people are very overweight, while some are bone-thin. And many people take their food for granted, not aware about how little food the unfortunate people in other places in the world. They do not give any money or food away to charity or organizations that help those poor people. So if you are one of those people, I encourage you to go out and help those people.

This book is filled with wonderful pictures of what people eat in a week, as well as a list of them, with how much money they spend on food each week. Also, there is a section about each family, saying what their hobbies are, and how they live their lives. And if you are ever lost about where to find a food, a country, a family, or pretty much anything else, just look in the index or table of contents, so you will never get lost!

This page-turning, informative book, uses a lot of details, and interesting information to make it so wonderful. I would totally recommend this book to anyone who loves food, culture, or the whole world. Except some pictures might disturb people, especially animal lovers! (They are pretty gruesome).

I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars, because it was great, but it could have had even more countries and families.

If you are one of the people who did not know about how poor and little food other people get until you read then I highly encourage you to help those people. You can make a big difference and save those people's lives. Thank you.

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Jan 19, 2011 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was almost as good as their newer book, 'What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets'. In this book, they visit 25 families in 21 countries and profile what they eat in a week. The countries range from the US to Egypt, Chad to Australia, Greenland to Mexico. In some circumstances, they profile more than one family per country - like in China, they featured an urban family followed by a rural one. Each family was accompanied by a few pages of text and some additional photos of their daily lives...more

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Oct 24, 2010 Eileen Corbett rated it 5 of 5 stars

What the World Eats is a fascinating book that gives the reader a glimpse into the lives of 25 families around the world, focusing on what they eat in a typical week. Each family is photographed in their kitchen surrounded by a week's worth of food. The authors also give the monetary amount spent for the food in local currency and US dollars. The food is categorized into basic food groups including snack foods, prepared foods, fast foods, and restaurant foods. The authors write about their exper...more

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Sep 14, 2009 Ceci added it

Australia, China, Chad, France, Greenland, India, Mali, Turkey, and the U.S. All over the world, families are sharing meals.

It may seem like a stretch to call this an eco-book or a "green" book, but I think it is one. For one thing, What the World Eats makes the point--colorfully, beautifully, and with good humor--that in many parts of the world, people eat far less than we do here in the U.S. where over two thirds of the population is obese.

It’s not news, but this book’s photojournalistic app...more Australia, China, Chad, France, Greenland, India, Mali, Turkey, and the U.S. All over the world, families are sharing meals.

It may seem like a stretch to call this an eco-book or a "green" book, but I think it is one. For one thing, What the World Eats makes the point--colorfully, beautifully, and with good humor--that in many parts of the world, people eat far less than we do here in the U.S. where over two thirds of the population is obese.

It’s not news, but this book’s photojournalistic approach is. Throughout the book we witness one week’s worth of food, family by family, budget by budget, in 21 countries around the world. Brimming with heartwarming family portraits and family recipes from many countries, this extraordinary act of nutritional reporting brings a whole new level of meaning to the old adage, “You are what you eat.” The images and voices of these cooks and consumers could be our own, and they stick.

I’ve been reading this book at lunch. I’m a mostly-vegetarian who tends strongly toward whole foods, so I love seeing these photographs of big bags of potatoes, heaps of carrots, rows of manzanitas, piles of peppers, huge sacks of rice. Photographic spreads on kitchens, street food, and fish offer a fascinating comparative global study of these foods and their preparation.

These richly colored images, which speak of Earth’s bounty, make me happy. But this book causes me to look deeper than the mere beauty of food, into its relationship to the land where it is grown, and into the impact of agricultural politics and lifestyle practices on the health and wellbeing of our species. The inquiry may not always be appetizing, but it’s increasingly essential as we seek to discover the causes and conditions – personal, cultural, and geopolitical -- that result in undernourishment and disease, as well as those that generate happiness and health.

As Michael Pollan and others have helpfully pointed out, our politics have everything to do with what ends up on our plates. The better we understand how to eat and live and cooperate in ways that acknowledge our common dependence on the Earth for sustenance, and the more we begin to act in accordance with this wisdom, the kinder we are to the whole world.

So yes, this big red book is definitely green.
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May 03, 2009 April Helms rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens, multicultural, nonfiction, young-adult

This has to be the most information crammed into 160 pages I have ever encountered. But "crammed" in a fairly orderly, well-laid-out fashion. This book has so many possibilities for schools, both children and adult groups, libraries. Heck, you could build a whole curriculum out of this book! The author and photographer went to 21 countries and met with 25 families. The basic package takes a snapshot of each family with a week's worth of food. Included are the number of family members, and how mu...more

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Apr 13, 2009 Sylvia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

25 keluarga di 21 negara menjabarkan apa yang mereka makan dalam kurun waktu seminggu.

Pernah dapet imel yang isinya foto keluarga dengan persediaan makanan mereka selama 1 minggu? Naahh buku ini menjelaskan foto-foto itu secara gamblang apa yang di makan oleh 25 keluarga di berbagai belahan negara, selama seminggu.

Perbedaan terlihat jelas dari keluarga di negara barat mereka lebih dominan makanan kaleng. Sementara di bagian timur rata-rata dalam supplies mereka ada tepung utk bikin roti.

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Apr 03, 2009 Kendall rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction-and-memoir

I enjoyed this book immensely. It is from the authors of the book Material World--where people around the world remove all their possessions and place them on their front "lawns" to show what they actually own. In this book, one week's worth of food that each "average" family eats in photographed with the family. The results are fascinating--what families in Chad eat in a week, for instance, is a stark contrast from what's consumed in the United States or Japan. Included in the book are addition...more

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Mar 08, 2013 Emma rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really like how in the book "What the World Eats" by Faith D'Alusio, the author compares the meals of families in different countries all over the world. It is interesting to see what foods different parts the world eat, and compare them with other countries. I found that people in the United States spend about $16 on dairy products a week, and people in Chad do not even have dairy products available to them. Also, I noticed that families in the United States spend over $300 on one week's food...more

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Dec 03, 2012 Kelli Carlson rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book was a delight to read. It was full of intriguing information and statistics about what people eat all over the world. Eating is universal and every culture and place has some sort of tradition(s) based around food. The book discusses how the traditions and culture are slowly being changed and conformed to more commercialized and universalized foods. Eating habits, where you get your food, and how you prepare it are all be changed. Traditions, foods and old customs are however not all d...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Lacey rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chapter-books, non-fiction-books, cultural-books

This book’s topic centers on one of the few things everyone in the world shares: food and the need to eat. The authors researched what families around the world ate in a typical week, the monetary costs and nutrition of this food, and photographed each family with a week’s worth of groceries for representational value. This piece showcases how vast the differences in our eating habits are internationally, but also reveals how families around the world come together around meals.
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Sep 16, 2012 Sara rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: children-teens, non-fiction

What the World Eats is the young reader version of Hungry Planet, written by the same authors, married couple Faith & Peter. This version maintains the same strengths and drawbacks as the original adult version: amazing photographs of eaters throughout the globe, and the authors' bias & agenda, respectively. What sets this version apart is the text size and length of each narrative, which makes the book more appropriate for younger audiences. Additionally, whereas Hungry Planet placed st...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Paige Wehmeyer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: picture-books, children-book, chapter-books

What The World Eats, by Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel is a amazing real life look into what the world eats. This book makes the reader feel as if they are sitting down to an amazing feast in many of the world’s most fantastically different countries. Some countries represented are Australia, China, Chad, France, Greenland, India, Mali, Turkey, and all over the United States of America. Getting a glimpse of 25 families around the world and what they eat on a basic meal or a extravagant meal i...more

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Mar 01, 2013 Conor rated it 5 of 5 stars

In the book, "What the World Eats" by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzei, it talked about some country's eating habits. The authors described that the main problem was that countrys such as Bhutan and Mali, do not have the food supplies to live a healthy life. A family living in Bhutan pays about an average of $5 on food each week. This conpares to an American family spending nearly $300 a week! Also, I learned that food gets even more scarce in countrys like Mali, Bhutan, and Mongolia because the...more

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Jun 28, 2009 Kermit rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: junior-nonfiction

What a great book. It was fascinating to see what the rest of the world eats. The book devoted a few pages to many different countries and spotlighted a particular family and their eating habits. It listed how much that family spends per week for food. For example, the family in Chad eats the equivalent of $18.33 worth of food per week as compared to the family in France that eats $419.95 worth of food each week. One of the particularly interesting countries was Kuwait, where since it is such a...more

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Nov 02, 2011 Jessie P rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: children, nonfiction

How much does your family eat in one week? This book talks about the different diets and eating habits of families in 21 countries around the world, photographing each family in their kitchen or eating area with a weeks' worth of food. The food is listed, along with the price in US$ and local currency for each major category (grains, meat, dairy, fruit and veggies, condiments, prepared, etc). There are a number of graphics comparing obesity, caloric intake, population, and many other statistics...more

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Dec 14, 2010 Jenny rated it 5 of 5 stars

Have you ever wanted to try sheep's head soup? Or chicken intestines? Or cicadas? Well, in Ecuador, the Philippines, and China, they eat these dishes all the time. How do I know? I know because I read What the World Eats, photographed by Peter Menzel and written by Faith D'Aluisio. This book describes in great detail what 25 families from 21 different countries eat on a weekly basis. Every culture and even every meal are so different that it makes for a fascinating read.

This book is structure...more Have you ever wanted to try sheep's head soup? Or chicken intestines? Or cicadas? Well, in Ecuador, the Philippines, and China, they eat these dishes all the time. How do I know? I know because I read What the World Eats, photographed by Peter Menzel and written by Faith D'Aluisio. This book describes in great detail what 25 families from 21 different countries eat on a weekly basis. Every culture and even every meal are so different that it makes for a fascinating read.

This book is structured in a very interesting way. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a picture of a family from a certain country with a weekly supply of food in front of them. Then, there is an article about the family and what they eat as well as facts about the country and interesting things about the countries' eating habits. They have little interesting fact boxes on the side of the first page of each article and throughout the book, there are pages about different countries' ways of eating such as their kitchens, their street food and everyday meals, and even their fast food. There are many pictures of the countries, the families they interviewed and the food they ate. There is a table of contents, index, and a list of citations. I think that all of those aspects of the structure of the book help the reader understand the information well. They had a lot of pictures and interesting facts, as well as writing. The layout of the book kept me entertained the entire time.

This book is also very interesting to read because of all of the pictures, family recipes, and the sub-articles they have. All of the countries are so different in terms of their eating habits and I think the author did a great job of setting up the book so that the countries were in an order where they could be compared. She would not put two countries like China and Japan, or the United States and England next to each other in terms of order because they were too similar. She would make it so that the countries were easily comparable so that it would be more interesting to the reader (such as France and Chad, or Mali and Poland). I think that the author was definitely a reliable expert on the subject. I think so because both the photographer and the author actually traveled to all of these places, experienced the culture and the food of the country themselves, AND got all of the inside scoop from the locals there (the families they interviewed). I don't think that the author was biased in any way because they didn't favor any countries food more than others or they didn't make us think one thing or another about the way THEY viewed the culture. They were very factual and interesting, yet not biased in any way.

I think that the author wrote this book really well and made the articles relatable and engaging because she gave you background information on the country and on the family, and then zoomed in on their food and their culture. All of the sub-articles and pictures were very interesting too because she compared and contrasted each culture and their food and also added color to draw your eyes in. I can't even believe Peter Menzel took all of those really clear and close-up photos! :) I don't really think that there was that much the author could have improved on. Maybe she could have included a few more recipes throughout the book. It was really interesting to see what ingredients they used and how they made their favorite family recipes in different countries. Every family has old recipes that they use from their relatives so it was really surprising to see family recipes so different from mine. Also, maybe the author could have included a few more families from different parts of the countries. I know that in China, she did two chapters: one rural and one urban, and in the U.S, they picked three different families, one white, one black, and one hispanic, from all different parts of the country. I think that the author, Faith D'Aluisio, could have done that type of thing with a few other countries. Other than those two little critiques, I think the author did an amazing job writing this book.

I honestly think that anyone could read this book. I think that people from the age of 10 or 11 and up would really enjoy this book, though. I think people under the age of 10 or 11 would think the way the book is structured and the articles are too sophisticated. I think this is a really awesome way to learn and understand other cultures and not be so closed into the culture you are in. You can really learn how to accept other's cultures and their way of life. Overall, I really think this book is awesome and I would strongly recommend it.

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Sep 17, 2011 Dree rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads, food, nonfiction

This is a YA book, but is nonetheless fascinating. Families in twenty-one countries are profiled: what they eat, who cooks, what/how they eat during the day. Each family has a photograph with everything eaten in a week, and there is an itemized list as well as basic demographic health facts for each country (#s per sugar eaten per capita per year, etc). Costs are also discussed.

Fascinating. My 6th grader is now going through it.

*Pet peeve alert*
This book discusses Great Britain as a country. Gre...more

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Apr 26, 2010 Alice rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-to-campbell, non-fiction, africa, asia, europe, middle-east, americas

Campbell checked this out from the school library. It was really good - it shows a photo of a week's groceries/food for different families around the world. Three American families are included, as are a refugee family in Chad, along with lots in between (in terms of volume and expense). The differences are striking. But, none of the families are treated as "lacking" in the book. The text describes their meals and how the family prepares and eats them. It's very well done. There are also pages t...more

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Apr 07, 2009 Heidi McReynolds rated it 4 of 5 stars

I heard about this book years ago on BoingBoing, but never read it until now. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/08/...

It was much more in-depth than I expected. I thought it would only emphasize how much America overeats and wastes. This book gave me a wonderful snapshot of what different families eat, how they cook, and how they live. I especially loved that the authors included a recipe for a dish that each family made. The photos are beautiful, and the family stories give a real feeling for e...more

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Feb 03, 2010 Paul rated it 5 of 5 stars

Great photographs and a lot of hard research combine to make What the World Eats a real masterpiece. The authors visited 25 families in 21 countries, keeping close track of everything they ate in a week. The resulting lists are documented with a photo of the family in their kitchen surrounded by all the week's food items, and accompanied by a written description of their diet and their food preparation and consumption habits. Also included are recipes, statistics on the various countries surveye...more

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Jan 13, 2012 Kirei rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: teens-and-adults, older-kids, younger-kids

This book is fantastic. It has photos of people with a week's worth of food. Little kids can look at just the photos and older kids can read the accompanying text.

Did you know that in Greenland seal meat is eaten?
Did you know that in one of the Chinese families the mom makes only $2.50 a day at her job?
Did you know in Kuwait a Big Mac costs around seven dollars? I sure could not afford that.

Lots of interesting stuff here!

I would have liked an end section on "How we made this book". (Like I have...more

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Nov 21, 2010 Trish Willis added it

what 25 families around the world, eat. Faith and Peter discovered that families share many similarities, and few differences. This book is full of facts about the countries and ways of life of the families depicted therein. There are continual comparisons made between families of differing areas and countries. For example, what Sunday brunch looks like in Hamburg, Germany, Istanbul, Turkey, and Chad, in Africa. The food is not the only thing that is compared. The clothing, culture, and family m...more

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Nov 05, 2009 Taylor rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: home-food-garden, non-fiction, society-and-culture

Shocking. Pictures, stories, and data about what comprises an average family's monthly grocery/food list and how much they spend. Here in the US we spend something like $350 for a family of 4 in a month...in the Sudan refugee camp it's more like $1.22.

This is an absolutely striking book like nothing else on our bookshelf. It reminds us how different we all are in tastes (roasted guinea pig on a stick? no thank you Ecuador!), how fortune is not spread equally, and how hungry some people are. It...more

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Dec 06, 2009 Julie rated it 5 of 5 stars

What the World Eats is as attractive, engrossing, intelligent and thought provoking as its beautiful and brilliant predecessor. Hungry Planet. Spotlighting 25 families from around the world, Peter Menzel’s abundant photographs literally show what each family eats in one week. Faith D’Aluisio’s conversational companion essays go well beyond cultural food differences to the complex relationships between poverty, conflict, and globalization; and food, nutrition and health. The superb design makes i...more

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May 24, 2009 Betsy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, childrens

Very interesting look at what the world eats! This is the version for young adults, so it is concise and easy to read. Each "chapter" begins with a full page family portrait of one of the 25 families studied, along with a week's worth of their normal food. Fascinating to compare what everyone eats, how much we eat compared to others, the different amounts of packaged food/fresh food/dried food, the amount of time we all take to fix our food, and so forth. Well worth a library check-out. Families...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: kidsstuff, nonfiction

this book is absolutely fascinating. there are photographs of families that live in different parts of the world with the food they eat in a week. there are families from chad, bhutan, australia, greenland, usa, france, equador, and more. there are also descriptions of a typical day of food preparations for each of the families. there are also graphics illustrating food consumption patterns, population density, and obesity. the book was written in 2004, but it is still very relevant. we have che...more

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Faith D’Aluisio is the editor and lead writer for the Material World book series. She received the James Beard Foundation Award in 1999 for Best Book, Reference and Writing on Food for Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects. She is a former television news producer whose work received awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association and the Headliners Foundation of Texas...more

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