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.
![menzelUS.jpg](https://i0.wp.com/scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/upload/2006/11/menzelUS.jpg?resize=400%2C287)
![menzelchina.jpg](https://i0.wp.com/scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/upload/2006/11/menzelchina.jpg?resize=432%2C303)
![menzelUK.jpg](https://i0.wp.com/scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/upload/2006/11/menzelUK.jpg?resize=432%2C285)
![menzelmali.jpg](https://i0.wp.com/scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/upload/2006/11/menzelmali.jpg?resize=432%2C291)
Anyway, it’s called “Hungry Planet. What the World Eats.“, and would make a great coffee table book type gift.