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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
by Peter Menzel
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781580088695 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
The 2006 James Beard Book of the Year is now available in paperback. Featuring a photojournalistic survey of 30 families from 24 countries and the food they eat during the course of one week, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.
Description:
The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world—including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France—and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week’s worth of groceries. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.
About the Author
PETER MENZEL is a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared nationally and internationally in National Geographic, Forbes, Fortune, Time, and other publications. FAITH D’ALUISIO is a former award-winning television news producer. The team has also published Material World, Women in the Material World, Robo sapiens, and MAN EATING BUGS. Faith and Peter live in Napa, California.
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grevillea, May 21, 2008 (view all comments by grevillea)
Friends gave me Hungry Planet for my birthday nearly two months ago, and I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and read it. It’s a fantastic book, quite like anything else I’ve ever read: part coffee table book, part recipe book, part commentary on the differences (and similarities) that exist between the developed and the developing world.
The basic idea of the book is this: Photographer Peter Menzel and his partner Faith D’Alusio travel to a variety of countries, all over the world, and document what people eat. Each family they visit is photographed sitting with a week’s worth of food, and the family is interviewed; the reader gets a sense of how food fits into the family’s life and culture.
I’m not sure I’ll make any recipes in the book, but the family photos alone are eye-opening. It’s sobering to compare the weekly food consumed by a family in a first world country with that of a family living in a refugee camp.
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Gabi, January 11, 2008 (view all comments by Gabi)
Like it says on the cover: an important book.
Real people and real situations -- this is REALLY how and what people eat the world over. It's about much more than food -- it's about how people can live.
I bought this book for the son of a friend...then kept it for myself and bought another one for the kid. I could not put it down. Irresistible pictures and great recipes from the tables of common folks from all around the world.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781580088695
- Subtitle:
- What the World Eats
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Ten Speed Press
- Subject:
- Subjects & Themes - Travel - General
- Subject:
- Food habits
- Subject:
- Food
- Copyright:
- 2007
- Publication Date:
- September 2007
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 287
- Dimensions:
- 8.92x12.02x.94 in. 3.05 lbs.
