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Genre/Form: | illustrated books Illustrated works Pictorial works Ouvrages illustrés |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Menzel; Faith D'Aluisio |
ISBN: | 9781580088695 1580088694 0984074422 9780984074426 |
OCLC Number: | 141385153 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2005. |
Description: | 287 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Dinner is served -- Australia -- Bhutan -- Bosnia -- Essay: Baked, boiled roasted, and fried / Alfred W. Crosby -- Photo gallery: The Kitchen -- Chad -- China -- Essay: McSlow / Corby Kummer -- Photo gallery: Fast food -- Cuba -- Ecuador -- Egypt -- Essay: Cart a la carte / Charles C. Mann -- Photo gallery: Street food -- Germany -- Great Britain -- Greenland -- Guatemala -- Essay: Food with a face / Michael Pollan -- Photo gallery: Meat -- India -- Italy -- Japan -- Kuwait -- Essay: Launching a sea ethic / Carl Safina -- Photo gallery: Fish -- Mali -- Mexico -- Mongolia -- Philippines -- Essay: Diabesity / Francine F. Kaufman -- Photo gallery: Meals -- Poland -- Turkey -- United States -- Afterword: Digestif -- Methodology -- Statistics. |
Responsibility: | photographed by Peter Menzel ; written by Faith D'Aluisio. |
Abstract:
Provides an overview of what families around the world eat by featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries with a week's supply of food.
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