eco sustain green Sustainability Blog: Even Time Magazine is Looking at Food

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Even Time Magazine is Looking at Food

posted by Paul K. Haeder

There are several Power Points out there in Internet land that illustrate the differences in diets, health predictors, ecological footprints, and cultural ties to food, family, gathering and sharing.

Hungry Planet photographer Peter Menzel with author and food stylist Faith D’Aluisio in Yazd, Iran

http://www.menzelphoto.com/books/hp.html

30 Families,

24 Countries,

600 Meals

One Extraordinary Book

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.