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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Hardcover)
by Peter Menzel , Faith D'Aluisio
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Diet & culture, Cookbook, Original books |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
"You are what you eat." wonderful insight on how the rest of the world eats and how disappointing the western diets have become. A marvelous traveling without leaving your couch. |
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Author: Peter Menzel , Faith D'Aluisio
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Pub. in: October, 2005
ISBN: 1580086810
Pages: 288
Measurements: 12.4 x 9 x 1.1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00974
Other information: ISBN-13: 9781580086813
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- Awards & Credential -
Faith D'Aluisio is a former award-winning television news producer. Peter Menzel is a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared nationally and internationally in National Geographic, Forbes, Fortune, Time, and other publications. |
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For their enormously successful Material World, photojournalist Menzel and writer D'Aluisio traveled the world photographing average people's worldly possessions. In 2000, they began research for this book on the world's eating habits, visiting some 30 families in 24 countries. Each family was asked to purchase - at the authors' expense - a typical week's groceries, which were artfully arrayed - whether sacks of grain and potatoes and overripe bananas, or rows of packaged cereals, sodas and take-out pizzas - for a full-page family portrait. This is followed by a detailed listing of the goods, broken down by food groups and expenditures, then a more general discussion of how the food is raised and used, illustrated with a variety of photos and a family recipe. A sidebar of facts relevant to each country's eating habits (e.g., the cost of Big Macs, average cigarette use, obesity rates) invites armchair theorizing. While the photos are extraordinary - fine enough for a stand-alone volume - it's the questions these photos ask that make this volume so gripping. After considering the Darfur mother with five children living on $1.44 a week in a refugee camp in Chad, then the German family of four spending $494.19, and a host of families in between, we may think about food in a whole new light. This is a beautiful, quietly provocative volume.
- From quoting Publishers Weekly
Target readers:
Food lovers and culture lovers
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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 Man Eating Bugs, Women in the Material World , and Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species. Faith and Peter live in Napa, California.
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From the publisher
- An unprecedented study and photographic collection of 30 typical families from 24 countries featuring the food they eat during the course of one week.
- Families profiled are from Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Mongolia, the United States, and beyond.
- Features essays on the politics of food by Marion Nestle, Charles C. Mann, and Alfred W. Crosby.
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Amanda Petrucelli (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-01 00:00>
What a phenomenal book. I like to think visitors to my home would flip through this while waiting for me to make them a hearty, slow foods dinner and the photos alone would provide conversation for the whole evening. We have no idea in this country how lucky we are. How wasteful. Every corner of this book is filled with statistics, catchy captions, lists and delightful international family recipes. There are also essays and longer texts detailing individual families and deeper food issues. But even the illiterate could aquire years of knowledge just studying the photos. And, I'll tell you what else, it inspires me to eat a little bit less at every meal.
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A.G. Vermouth (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-01 00:00>
Aside from beautiful photography and a clean edit (both things we might expect from this pair), I was especially drawn to the family recipes. They connected me to the stories on a more basic historic level, made me look back to the photos for reference, and made me hungry to try them out myself. I think I might have to wait for a trip to St. Lawrence Island to work up the Greenlandic Seal stew, though I'm ready to get on a flight now.
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La Cynthia (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-01 00:00>
Peter Menzel long ago realized that people all over the world don't know enough about each other! In Material World, he showed the material possessions of families from Mali to Japan and the incredible disparity of their Things, yet he emphasizes the humanity of everybody and shows that obviously possessions are not of utmost importance. Hungry Planet (and his wonderful Man-Eating Bugs book) show how the rest of the world eats, how some folks can survive healthily on far less food than others - and end up with less diabetes, heart disease, etc. Another important aspect is that he and Faith and the photographers give money and help back to the children and families they photograph! Bravo, you guys! Great presents for adults and kids of all ages - something for everybody.
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J. Fleshman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-01 00:00>
What a great book. The photographs are eye-catching, and the stories are riveting. It represents the diversity of human consumption, its cost and how people choose to nourish themselves in different cultures. One of my favorites.
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