Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
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Book Reviews of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Book Review: I would give it ten stars if I could
Summary: 5 Stars
Menzel, a photographer, and D'Aluisio, who authors the text that accompanies Menzel's photography and happens to be his wife, spent a week each with thirty families in twenty-four countries. At the end of that week, Menzel and D'Aluisio paid for each family to buy an average week's worth of groceries. Each family poses with their food in their home, such as it is, and the book provides a grocery list in addition to a few pages about the family. The families vary greatly in size (both the size of the individual members and the number of family members), location, and wealth, from a family of six refugees in Chad (the total street value of their UN rations for one week: $1.23) to a family of four in Germany (total food expenditures for the week: $500.07) and many other places (including a hunting family in Greenland, which I found particularly interesting, as well as Bhutan, Bosnia, Guatemala, and - of course - the United States). D'Aluisio doesn't pass judgment on any of the families for what they eat, but it's difficult not to notice that, for example, the family from Guatemala eats almost all whole grains, fruit and vegetables, or that fifteen people in Mali eat significantly less than even a family of five in Mexico. My only complaint would be that I think the essays interspersed in the text distract from the book itself, even though I agreed with the topics in the essays. Highly recommended.Book Review: Haunting, essential and beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
This book should, in my opinion, be assigned reading for everyone in so-called first world countries. What the author manages to accomplish is nothing short of remarkable- chronicling one week of food consumption in a number of families around the world. The text is well-written and informative, but it's the photographs that speak the loudest. To compare the weekly food consumption of a US or German family with that of a Sudanese or Mongolian family is haunting and recalibrates what we take for granted. Highly recommended.Book Review: Great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
An through and interesting way to present the food of different cultures. The book not only shows a picture of what a week's worth of food looks like across the globe, but puts how much it costs and in USD. The book also elaborates on the eating habits, culture, and daily life of the people. There are also recipes! A great book with an eye opening perspective of people all over the world.Book Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
Hungry Planet is a moving look at what families of the world live on...it combines incredible photography, well chosen statistics and outstanding commentary to clearly portray the diversity and real life economic situations of our fellows on planet earth. I love this book for the way it influences my children to see compassionately and with greater gratitude (and me too!)Book Review: SO COOL.
Summary: 5 Stars
What a cool book! I had to have it for an Economic Geography class and it is just the coolest. It shows families around the world with a weeks worth of their food, and they talk about their lives, eating habits, what they used to eat and how that's changed. It also has recipes for each family, a REAL eye opener. All my roomates were jealous...