Today we are witnessing the greatest change in global diets since the invention of agriculture. Globalization, mass tourism, and giant agribusiness have filled American supermarket shelves with extraordinary new foods. And in return, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Kraft Cheese Singles are being exported to every corner of the planet.
In Hungry Planet, the creative team behind the bestselling Material World books, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, presents a photographic study of families 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 community; and a portrait of the entire family surrounded by a week’s worth of groceries. To assemble this remarkable comparison, Menzel and D’Aluisio traveled to twenty-four countries and visited thirty families from Bhutan and Bosnia to Mexico and Mongolia.
“A beautiful and important book about one of the world’s most important subjects.”
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“With its heraldic widescreen family-and-foodstuff portraits, illuminating essays, and authentic recipes (many of which you might actually want to try), Hungry Planet is unique—and probably essential for anyone who really cares about, as its subtitle has it, ‘what the world eats.’”
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