On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad and in the UK the Baintons are eating bacon and eggs and chocolate fudge cake with cream. This 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 diets worldwide. In HUNGRY PLANET, the creative team behind the best-selling Material World, Women in the Material World, and MAN EATING BUGS presents a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week. Each family s profile includes a detailed description of their weekly food purchases; photographs of the family at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of the entire family surrounded by a week s worth of groceries. To assemble this remarkable comparison, photojournalist ! Peter Menzel and writer Faith D Aluisio traveled to 24 countries and visited 30 families from Bhutan and Bosnia to Mexico and Mongolia. The resulting series of photographs and facts is a 30-course feast of visual and quantitative information. Featuring essays on the politics of food by Marion Nestle, Charles C. Mann, and Alfred W. Crosby, and 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.

美國攝影記者Ｐｅｔｅｒ Ｍｅｎｚｅｌ和作傢Ｆａｉｔｈ Ｄ’Ａｌｕｓｉｏ在２００５年齣版瞭紀實攝影集《Ｈｕｎｇｒｙ Ｐｌａｎｅｔ》（飢餓的星球），他們走訪瞭２４個國傢，采訪瞭３０個傢庭約６００人，記錄他們一周的食物消費。這３０個傢庭被要求購買他們日常一周需要消費的食物，花費算在Ｐｅｔｅｒ Ｍｅｎｚｅｌ和Ｆａｉｔｈ Ｄ’Ａｌｕｓｉｏ的賬上，然後，將這些食物按照一定的順序巧妙地擺放好，和傢人一起照張“全傢福”。在書中，圖片旁被附上注釋，主要為圖片拍攝地所在的國傢的關於食物的一些說明，如這個國傢的平均肥胖率、煙草的人均消費量、吃漢堡包的頻率等。

差異在書中是如此明顯。一個四口之傢的德國傢庭一周的食物開支高達５００美元，而住在難民營的２位母親和４個孩子的一周食物支齣不足２美元。食物種類和各自所占的比例也暗藏信號，還有營養配搭、風俗習慣，足夠細心，你甚至可以研究齣一本食譜進化論。政治化的食譜，地域性食物的全球化，人與人之間的關係，巨大的差異，拼貼齣來的題目，就是“飢餓的星球”。