PhotoMedia Magazine's Fall 2007 issue cover story was "Peter Menzel's Socially Conscious Lens." It was a seven page article on Peter Menzel's work over the years, focusing on two books he produced with his wife Faith D'Aluisio, Material World: A Global Family Portrait and Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.

    Preservation Magazine ran a cover story on the fate of Biosphere 2, the space colony experiment in the Arizona desert where 8 biospherians sealed themselves into a giant terrarium in 1991 for 2 years. Photos are from the many visits Peter Menzel made while covering the construction and the execution of the experiment.

 The June 11 issue of Time Magazine contained a 6 page article on Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, using 6 families investigated within the book as a basis for an exploration of the death of culinary traditions around the world at the hands of modern convenience and processed foods.

    Marie Claire in FRANCE published an 11 page Hungry Planet excerpt in their April issue featuring the large family portraits with a week's worth of food in Bhutan, Chad, Ecuador, Germany, Okinawa, China, Mexico, and Italy.

    Canada's curiously named The Walrus, a highly intelligent and graphically intriguing magazine, ran an 8-page spread photo essay on Hungry Planet in their year end edition. Augmenting 13 photos from the Hungry Planet book are two Canadian families shot specifically for the magazine: a family near Ottawa in Quebec, and a family in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

    Mexico's leading business magazine, Expansion, published a 15-page portfolio of Hungry Planet family portraits in their November issue.

     A sparely illustrated (many more images available), yet very interesting story on the discovery of nearly 200 planets orbiting other stars appeared in the October, 2006 Smithsonian Magazine. The photos were shot at the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton and at UC Berkeley.

     The September 2006 issue of Photo, the leading French photography magazine, ran a 10 page portfolio of Hungry Planet images along with an interview with Peter Menzel. Most of the September issue was devoted to the international photojournalism festival in Perpignan where an appreciative crowd gave a Hungry Planet evening projection an enthusiastic reception. 

    The August 2006 issue of the Greek magazine Epsilon contained an 18-page article of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.

    Newton, the leading Italian 'popular' science magazine, ran a 10 page Hungry Planet feature in their April 2006 issue.

    Marie Claire in Taiwan published an 8 page Hungry Planet excerpt in their February issue featuring the large family portraits with a week's worth of food in Bhutan, Chad, Australia, USA, Germany, Okinawa, China, France, and Italy. 

    Marie Claire in Taiwan published an 8 page Hungry Planet excerpt in their February issue featuring the large family portraits with a week's worth of food in Bhutan, Chad, Australia, USA, Germany, Okinawa, China, France, and Italy. 

    Spain's leading newspaper, El Pais, ran a 5-part 62-page series called Hungry Planet in their weekend magazines—excerpts grouped by continent from Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.

    France's Le Figaro Magazine printed a story on Greenlandic seal hunter Emil Madsen from the coverage of Emil's family in Menzel and D'Aluisio's new book, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. 

    The leading magazine for the photo industry in the USA, PDN (Photo District News) features What the World Eats as a cover story in their Environmental and Travel Photography December issue. From the story by Jane Gottlieb: "We have a lot of information to communicate, " says the photographer, 57. "You've got to be much more informed these days to make intelligent decisions and you can't do that just with pretty pictures."

     Atlantica, the inflight magazine of Icelandic Airlines, ran a two page review of Hungry Planet in their November/December 2005 issue. Peter and Faith were interviewed in Reykjavik about the book after speaking at a Travel Summit there in September.

    German GEO's kids' magazine GEOLINO gave young readers a taste of Menzel and D'Aluisio's new book, Hungry Planet: What The World Eats in their November issue. They focused on families from Ecuador, Chad, USA, Greenland, Bhutan, and Italy.

    The southernmost Japanese island of Okinawa has the highest percentage of centenarians of any place on the planet. How can a population that suffered through one of the most brutal and deadly battles of World War II have such healthy old people? It seems that a combination of diet and lifestyle accounts for this statistical anomaly that the rest of world aspires to. Learn the details to long life in this story.

    Germany's GEO Magazine ran a story on Greenlandic seal hunter Emil Madsen based on the coverage of Emil's family in Menzel and D'Aluisio's new book, Hungry Planet: What The World Eats. After Menzel and D'Aluisio spent a week dog sledding with the family as they hunted and fished in the remote and pristine ice fields of Eastern Greenland in May of 2004, German writer Susanne Fromel followed their sled tracks a year later.

    Marie Claire (USA) published a snippet of Menzel and D'Aluisio's new book, Hungry Planet: What The World Eats. They used the family portraits with a week's worth of food in Chad, Germany and Bhutan.

    Delta Airline's Sky Magazine featured the Equadorian family with a text excerpt from Hungry Planet in their November issue in a section they call "Thought Leader". Also included is a short interview with the authors.

    France's GEO magazine published a 16-page comprehensive nutrition story based on Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's most recent book, Hungry Planet: What The World Eats. Families from Bhutan, Ecuador, France, Greenland, the USA, Kuwait, China, Chad, Cuba, Poland, Germany, Egypt, India, and Japan are featured in large portraits, each with a week's worth of food and accompanying statistics.

    Wine Spectator Magazine published an eight page article about how traditional winemaking techniques are still implemented in our modern day wineries. The focus of the article is on Northern California's Napa Valley region which is renown world wide for its production of exceptional wines.   

    Eight years after they were photographed outside their homes with ALL their possessions, six statistically average families were re-visited by photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio. They posed for a new family photo with the possessions that were NEW to them since the last group portrait was made for the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait (1994, Sierra Club Books). The new group portraits, and the daily life photos that accompany them, give insight into the changing world economy in Bhutan, Bosnia, Cuba, Japan, Mali, and Mongolia. Two new average families, in Turkey and the USA, were shot as well. These photos do not appear in the GEO story, but were shot as part of a NHK (Japanese National Educational TV) 2 hour documentary on Material World that aired in Japan in September 2001.

    Hal the computer's apologetically intoned "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that," from "2001 A Space Odyssey" by Sir Arthur C. Clarke is considered to be one of the most important phrases of the 20th Century. Writer Thomas Borchert and photographer Peter Menzel spent a week with the world¹s most famous science fiction writer at home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur played table tennis and scuba dived with Menzel before relaxing for a photo in a suite of the Galle Face hotel watching a DVD of the movie 2001. Clarke displayed the DVD disk to illustrate his axiom "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."