Purchase
An unprecedented study and photographic collection of 30 typical families from 24 countries featuring the food they eat during the course of one week.
Ten Speed Press
October 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 1580086810
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his
family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with
tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys
corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This 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 diets worldwide. In HUNGRY PLANET, the creative team behind the best-selling
MATERIAL WORLD, WOMEN IN THE MATERIAL WORLD, and
MAN EATING BUGS presents a photographic study of
families from around the world, revealing what people eat
during the course of one week. Each family's profile
includes a detailed description of their weekly food
purchases; photographs of the family at home, at market,
and in their communities; and a portrait of the entire
family surrounded by a week 's worth of groceries. To assemble this remarkable comparison, photojournalist
Peter Menzel and writer Faith D 'Aluisio traveled to 24
countries and visited 30 families from Bhutan and Bosnia to
Mexico and Mongolia. The resulting series of photographs
and facts is a 30-course feast of visual and quantitative
information. Featuring essays on the politics of food by Marion Nestle,
Charles C. Mann, and Alfred W. Crosby, and 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.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy