Hungry Plant - What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world--including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France--and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.
See a photo gallery of how families around the world spend their food dollars at
Time Magazine Online
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For farmer's market vendors and fans alike, a recent article in Mother Jones magazine is a very interesting read.
Excerpt:
"You couldn't ask for a better vision of contemporary gourmet culture at its most successful: healthy people buying healthy food from happy farmers who care for the earth. But there's always trouble in paradise, and the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market version-representative, according to farmers, of the trouble spreading quietly through the nationwide network of these markets-has to do with a gulf between appearance and reality."
Bottom Line: Know your farmer!
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