About this title: Traveling to 24 countries, from Greenland, Chad, and Japan to Germany, Guatemala, and the United States, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio photographed 30 families accompanied by a careful display of a week's worth of food. Chronicling the enormous differences in eating habits between industrial and developing countries, each section includes a family portrait, along with their groceries, and a listing of how much was spent in each food group. In the tradition of MATERIAL WORLD, this timely, fascinating photography book illustrates not only the growth of fast food consumption worldwide, but ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Material World
Date Published: 2005-10-01
ISBN-13:9781580086813ISBN:1580086810
Description: Good. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Text unmarked and in good shape. Dust jacket has a little edge wear. Nice copy overall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781580086813ISBN:1580086810
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 287 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. standar shipping only. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ten Speed Press, U. S
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781580086813ISBN:1580086810
Description: New. NEW-SHOP SOILED COPY-TRUSTED DEVON (UK) BASED SELLER-IN STOCK-SENT WITHIN 1 WORKING DAY-AVAILABLE BY EMAIL FOR QUERIES-NO QUIBBLE REFUND IF NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED- read more
Binding: Hardboard dj.
Publisher: Ten Speed Pr, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781580086813ISBN:1580086810
Description: Good in Good (edgeworn) jacket. 9.25" x 12" D.J. has small tear at bottom right hand corner. Book has slight wear at spine. Numerous color photographs. 287 pages. 33 families. 24 countries. 600 meals. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781580086813ISBN:1580086810
Description: New. This photographic study of families from 24 countries reveals what people eat during the course of one week. Each family's profile includes a detailed description of their food purchases and their community. read more
Description: New. HARDCOVER with DUST JACKET, Ten Speed Press, 2005 First Printing. GIFT QUALITY! NEW! Spine unbroken, unmarked, very clean, crisp pages with square corners. (N) DJ is very clean and square corners. Slight shelf wear. (N) Magnificent book! ! ! 409. read more
"I almost have no words to describe how amazing this book is. Menzel, a photographer, and D'Aluisio, who authors the text to go with his 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. Highly recommended."
"This was a fascinating book to read. A world tour of cousine, culture and economics. Menzel and D'Aluisio toured 24 countries, visiting and eating with 30 families around the world. They learned what they eat in a week, how they get it, prepare it and serve it. They visited local markets and family farms.
At the end of each visit, they took a portrait of their host family, surrounded by a week's worth of food. The similarities and differences are compelling. The cost differences are staggering. The photography is excellent and the text enlightening.
This is very much a book of the moment. In a year or five or ten, it will be outdated. Economies and price differentials will have changed. Still, today, this is well worth the read. Highly recommended."
"I am thoroughly enjoying this book. The photos are gorgeous and the statistics are staggering. I have checked this out from the library and would love to add it to my own and to the libraries of friends, family and schools. The breakdown of calories, alcohol consumption, cigarette usage, diabetes, pounds of meat consumed annually, etc. across the globe is so telling and fascinating. Highly recommended!"
"Beautiful photos, stunning juxtapositions. I wish the writing could have been a little more gripping, and clarifications made (did they or did they not purchase the weeks worth of food for the portrait takers? The afterward states that they did, but reading the text implied that the families were buying the food with their own money).
The photos! I still cannot get over the ubiquity of certain food items, like knorrs bullion or pringles or coke!"
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