What the World Eats cover

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. Menzel and D’Aluisio traveled to twenty-four countries to photograph families with their weekly diets. It’s a fascinating idea, and interesting way of comparing different cultures – take a look.

What the World Eats. This time, along with the portraits of families and their week’s worth of food, the book examines things like the cost of food, meat consumption, obesity rates, access to fast food, and so on in each country visited. Adapted to be readable for all ages, this book takes an intriguing look at the relationship between  people, the earth, industrialization, and culture. Incredibly browseable and endlessly fascinating, What the World Eats is a classic you can return to time and time again.

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