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| 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
McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Kraft Cheese Singles are
being exported to every corner of the planet. |
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Best Book of the Year, 2006
James Beard
Foundation |
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"The world's kitchens open to Peter Menzel and Faith
D'Aluisio... As always with this couple's terse, lively travelogues,
politics and the world economy are never far from view."
-New York Times |
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"While the photos are extraordinary-fine enough for a
stand-alone volume-it's the questions these photos ask that make
this so gripping. This is a beautiful, quietly provocative
volume."
-Publisher’s
Weekly | |
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30 Families, 24 Countries, 600 Meals
One Extraordinary Book |
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In Hungry Planet, Peter Menzel and Faith
D'Aluisio present a photographic study of families from around the
world, revealing what people eat 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. Accompanied by an insightful foreword
by Marion Nestle, and provocative essays from Alfred W. Crosby,
Francine R. Kaufman, Corby Kummer, Charles C. Mann, Michael Pollan,
and Carl Safina, the result of this journey is a 30-course
documentary feast: captivating, infuriating, and altogether
fascinating. | |
