i just finished reading this book...anyone else? essentially, the authors visit families in different countries for a week, photographing their life and documenting what each family eats over the course of a week. each family also poses with a weeks worth of food, and there are statistics about each country so that you can somewhat compare. some interesting parts:- how much the food in industrialized countries doesn't actually look like food--that is, they are pictured surrounded by boxes, bottles and packages, and very little that you would recognize as part of a plant or animal. by contrast, in developing nations, sometimes they would have absolutely no prepared food, or a couple of bouillion cubes or something.
- how disparate the amount of food available is, depending on where one lives.
- how much musk ox meat is eaten by people in greenland...something like 29 lbs per week. per person.
- all the different types and parts of animals that are eaten around the world...congealed blood or deep fried scorpion on a stick, anyone?
it was also striking the way that the authors would juxtapose different families...for instance, they did 2 different families living in chad, one who was a refugee family from a neighboring war-torn country, and one a local family. also, there were 3 different families from the US, and how different they were from each other, yet really very similar as compared to the world.
overall, a very interesting, somewhat shocking book...anyone else got a good read to share?
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