Monday, January 01, 2007

What The World Eats

Germany's GEO magazine published a comprehensive nutrition story based on Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's most recent book, Hungry Planet: What The World Eats.


Essentially, they've traveled the world to meet "average" families and report on their dietary habits. Apart from being thematically intriguing from a journalistic point of view, it's also quite awesome from a visual perspective. Basically, Peter has taken photos of the families with their weekly food totals.

Families from Australia, Chad—including a refugee family from Darfur, Sudan—China, Ecuador, Germany, Greenland, Kuwait, Okinawa, Poland, the USA, and others are featured in large portraits, each with a week's worth of food.

This one is a representative from the US, and here are some others (below the fold). A whole ton of other pictures can be found here.


What The World Eats - USA


What The World Eats - China


What The World Eats - Chad


What The World Eats - Chad

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What The World Eats - Japan


What The World Eats - Kuwait


What The World Eats - Gronland


What The World Eats - Australia

What The World Eats - Mali


What The World Eats - Holland


What The World Eats - Poland



Source [Menzelphoto]

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