What different parts of the world eats in one week.
Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel have a newish book out which is just wonderful from a food perspective. Essentially, they’ve traveled the world to meet “average” families and report on their dietary habits. Apart from being thematically intriguing from a journalistic point of view, it’s also quite awesome from a visual perspective. Basically, Peter has taken photos of the families with their weekly food totals.
This one is a representative from the US, and here are some others (below the fold). A whole ton of other pictures can be found here.
Anyway, it’s called “Hungry Planet. What the World Eats.“, and would make a great coffee table book type gift.
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Let me also add, that the picture of China is a rural part of China.
This was fist published as a feature article in The Walrus (A fantastic Canadian Arts and Culture Magazine) In the Spring of last year.
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