Hungry Planet: What The World Eats
by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio

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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.

In Hungry Planet, the creative team behind the best-selling Material World books, 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.

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Quantity:	1 item(s) available
Weight:	1.61 kg
Price:	CDN$ 55.00 (US$ 49.34)

ISBN-10:	1580086810
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781580086813
Author:	Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio
Publisher:	Material World Books Napa, CA
Publication Date:	2006
Pages:	287 pp
Size/Dimensions:	9 x 12
Binding:	Hardcover