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What the World Eats

What the World Eats

by Peter Menzel

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 160 PAGES
  • FAMILY

D'alluisio and Menzel, authors of the poignant Material World, chronicle diverse families in this portrait of global nutrition. The 25 featured clans, each strikingly photographed surrounded by a week's worth of food, range from hunters in Chad to subsistence farmers in Ecuador to abundantly well-fed Americans. This engrossing read raises the issue of world food supply. Includes recipes.  (GEN478, $22.99)


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Hungry Planet, What the World Eats


by Peter Menzel | Faith D'Aluisio

  • FOOD
  • 2005
  • HARD COVER
  • 287 PAGES

Bhutan, Bosnia, China, Chad, Egypt, Greenland the Philippines and the United States, this mind-expanding book documents families around the world -- and what they eat, each photographed with a week's worth of food. With facts about each country, recipes (seal stew anyone?). Maps and a few paragraphs on each family, it's a terrific introduction to world geography. (WLD65, $40.00)


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