Book Review: Hungry Planet - What the World Eats
I recently read Hungry Planet after waiting for three months (!!) on the library wait list. It's a very popular book, and with good reason. A collaboration between photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Alusio, this book profiles the eating habits of thirty families from around the globe. The centerpiece of the book, if you will, are photographs of each family surrounded by exactly one weeks worth of their groceries. These are amazing photographs, and the book is worth getting for the photographs and captions alone. I loved reading about families from Greenland, Bhutan, China, Okinawa, Cuba, and their wildly divergent culinary experiences. 4 out of 5. Buy at Amazon or Place hold at Multnomah County Library