"What the World Eats": a week's food for families around the globe

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	"What the World Eats": a week's food for families around the globe

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2-25-2008 5:01 PM

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food, economics, international, globalization, poverty, consumerism, photography, image

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Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio travelled around the world and documented, in writing and photos, the diets of 24 families in different locations. For some reason the first one on the list here, showing a family in a refugee camp in Chad, didn't clip.

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Imagine shopping, farming, cooking and eating with those families... taking note of every vegetable peeled, every beverage poured, every package opened.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952"><P>Well that's what photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio did for their new book, <EM>Hungry Planet: What the World Eats</EM>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952"><P>The husband-and-wife team wanted to see how globalization, migration and rising affluence are affecting the diets of communities around the globe.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952"><P>Each chapter of their book features a portrait of a family, photographed alongside a week's worth of groceries.  There's also a detailed list of all the food and the total cost.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952"><P class="caption">The Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week's worth of food. <SPAN class="rightsnotice">© 2005 Peter Menzel from 'Hungry Planet: What the World Eats'</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/E5A42290-42C1-4809-8B07-62352FD3F960" alt="The Melander family, in the dining room of their home in Bargteheide, Germany" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/6C26FE59-5967-495D-A2D3-DD5CC5C2411C" alt="The Revis family, in the kitchen of their home in suburban Raleigh, N.C." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/88D57FA5-F165-46A3-9FC6-F10BDD6A68DD" alt="The Dong family in the living room of their one-bedroom apartment in Beijing." /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9668D771-EF69-4403-A02E-5BC104048F57/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>