false 4943 2 It's an inspired idea--to better understand the human diet, explore what culturally diverse families eat for a week. That's what photographer Peter Menzel and author-journalist Faith D'Alusio, authors of the equally ambitious <i>Material World</i>, do in <i>Hungry Planet: What the World Eats</i>, a comparative photo-chronicle of their visits to 30 families in 24 countries for 600 meals in all. Their personal-is-political portraits feature pictures of each family with a week's worth of food purchases; weekly food-intake lists with costs noted; typical family recipes; and illuminating essays, such as "Diabesity," on the growing threat of obesity and diabetes. Among the families, we meet the Mellanders, a German household of five who enjoy cinnamon rolls, chocolate croissants, and beef roulades, and whose weekly food expenses amount to $500. We also encounter the Natomos of Mali, a family of one husband, his two wives, and their nine children, whose corn and millet-based diet costs $26.39 weekly. <br><br> We soon learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Thus cultures can move--sometimes in a single jump--from traditional diets to the vexed plenty of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more of nutritionally questionable food. Their health suffers. <br><br> Because the book makes many of its points through the eye, we see--and feel--more than we might otherwise. Issues that influence how the families are nourished (or not) are made more immediate. Quietly, the book reveals the intersection of nutrition and politics, of the particular and universal. It's a wonderful and worthy feat. <i>--Arthur Boehm</i> 8497 1 10 2005 Hungry Planet: What the World Eats total:404|5:249|4:129|3:25|2:1|1:0| 404 1838 681 111 4 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Nov 14 12:04:29 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 30 08:18:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 13 08:52:59 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 08:58:18 -0700 2008 What a great idea! I've seen the book where they place families and all their possessions outside their dwelling around the world, but this takes one weeks worth of food the family eats and places it in front of them.

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From the folks that brought us the Material World coffee table book, which was photographs of families with all their possesions out...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 14:01:33 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 08:47:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Oct 05 00:14:26 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 21:12:48 -0700 2007
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, photographed by Peter Menzel, written by Faith D’aluisio.

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