[AODA members] Hungry Planet: What the World Eats | Photo Essays | TIME

[Stacia Nordin, RD]

I hope this e-mail entices you to buy the book, visit their website and 
share these amazing stories with others.  The authors are opening minds 
to the world of food.

Stacia Nordin, RD
AODA President

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*Hungry Planet:  What the World Eats*
Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373680,00.html

Their latest book---released in November 2005---is another 
around--the--world exploration of average daily life in 24 
countries---this time focusing on food. /Hungry Planet: What the World 
Eats/, details each family's weekly food purchases and average daily 
life. The centerpiece of each chapter is a portrait of the entire family 
surrounded by a week's worth of groceries accompanied by interviews and 
detailed grocery lists. Gourmet Magazine Executive Editor and former New 
York Times Restaurant Critic Ruth Reichl, "The world will be a much 
better place when everyone reads this book."
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from the hungry planet

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp

Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

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Faith D'Aluisio

Faith D'Aluisio, a former award--winning television news producer, is 
co--author of Women in the Material World (Sierra Club Books, 1996) with 
photojournalist Peter Menzel. This book, which explores the lives of 
women around the world, builds upon the documentary work of Peter 
Menzel's first bestseller, /Material World: A Global Family Portrait/ to 
which she contributed. In 1996 Women in the Material World was named one 
of the year's Ten Best Books for the Teenaged by the New York Public 
Library.

In 1998 the team published /Man Eating Bugs: the Art and Science of 
Eating Insects/, a worldwide look at the human consumption of insects. 
This critically acclaimed book, a Material World Book imprint 
distributed by Ten Speed Press, won the 1999 James Beard Award for 
Reference and Writings on Food.

Their latest book---released in November 2005---is another 
around--the--world exploration of average daily life in 24 
countries---this time focusing on food. /Hungry Planet: What the World 
Eats/, details each family's weekly food purchases and average daily 
life. The centerpiece of each chapter is a portrait of the entire family 
surrounded by a week's worth of groceries accompanied by interviews and 
detailed grocery lists. Gourmet Magazine Executive Editor and former New 
York Times Restaurant Critic Ruth Reichl, "The world will be a much 
better place when everyone reads this book."

Peter Menzel

Peter Menzel is a California-based freelance photojournalist whose work 
has appeared in many national and international publications including 
/National Geographic, Life, Forbes, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & 
World Report, Discover, Smithsonian, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, 
Geo, Stern, Paris Match/ and /Le Figaro/.

Menzel has dedicated a large part of his 35--year career building an 
impressive portfolio of hi-tech stories on subjects as varied as virtual 
reality, insect robots, lightning, DNA fingerprinting, micromachines and 
solar power and solar cars. Menzel's commitment to photography means he 
spends most of the year on the road shooting a story or researching the 
next assignment. Much of his work is self-initiated: his award-winning 
coverage of the Kuwait oil well fires ran as a 26-page cover story for 
German Geo and his photo essay of the civil war in Somalia was one of 
the first to hit the press.

Menzel has won numerous awards from the National Press Photographers 
Association, the World Press Photo Foundation and Communication Arts 
Magazine. His work has been exhibited at the United Nations, the Museum 
of Science and Industry in Chicago, the National Museum of Natural 
History, the Museum of Science in Boston, the Tech Museum in San Jose, 
and at Visa Pour L'Image, the international photojournalism conference 
in Perpignan, France. His photographs are also part of the permanent 
collection at the International Center of Photography in New York, the 
Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and at Copia: the 
American Center for Art, Food, and Wine in Napa, California.

Menzel's projects include /Material World, A Global Family Portrait/ 
which was published by Sierra Club Books in October, 1994, with a 
CD--ROM; /Women in the Material World/ (co--authored with his wife, 
Faith D'Aluisio) published by Sierra Club Books, 1996. These epic works 
of photojournalism focus on the material possessions and daily lives of 
average families and women around the world. /Material World/ has been 
excerpted in magazines around the world and featured on the television 
programs /National Geographic Explorer, CNN International Hour, CBS This 
Morning/ and /Oprah/. Both books have been translated into Japanese and 
German.

His third book was the critically acclaimed, award--winning book, /Man 
Eating Bugs: the Art and Science of Eating Insects/, a worldwide look at 
the human consumption of insects. This book, a Material World imprint, 
co--authored with his wife Faith D'Aluisio, was released in September, 
1998 and is distributed by Ten Speed Press. In 1999, it was awarded the 
James Beard Award in the Writings on Food category.

Menzel and D'Aluisio authored a fourth photographic book about robots 
and their creators, called /Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species/, 
also a Material World imprint, published by MIT Press in September, 
2000. Menzel's initial robot photoreportage for Stern Magazine in 
Germany that led to the book Robo sapiens, was awarded first place for 
science photography by the World Press Photo 2000 in Amsterdam.

Their latest book---released in November 2005---is another 
around--the--world exploration of average daily life in 24 
countries---this time focusing on food. /Hungry Planet: What the World 
Eats/, details each family's weekly food purchases and average daily 
life. The centerpiece of each chapter is a portrait of the entire family 
surrounded by a week's worth of groceries accompanied by interviews and 
detailed grocery lists. Gourmet Magazine Executive Editor and former New 
York Times Restaurant Critic Ruth Reichl, "The world will be a much 
better place when everyone reads this book."

Peter Menzel and his wife, Faith D'Aluisio, live in Napa, California, 
where they are working on upcoming projects. They have four adult sons.

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