Comments on: What is eaten in one week? http://www.pastabroccoli.net/archives/2008/02/13/what-is-eaten-in-one-week/ exploring the world one bite at a time Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:58:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Eric Reuter http://www.pastabroccoli.net/archives/2008/02/13/what-is-eaten-in-one-week/comment-page-1/#comment-55158 Eric Reuter Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:20:26 +0000 http://www.pastabroccoli.net/?p=204#comment-55158 Those photos, and that concept, originally source from the book "Hungry Planet", by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluzio. It's a fascinating work that took them years to complete. For every country they visited, they worked with local government and other organizations to identify and locate a statistically "average" family, then lived with them for a week and photographed their week of food. It was an enourmous undertaking and produced one of the most fascinating, touching, and inspiring books you'll ever read. It has a companion volume called Material World, in which they do the same thing but photograph families with all of their wordly belongings; many of the families are the same in both books, but with many years between the two projects. Please, please, find and buy copies of both of these books, and show them to everyone you know. I think you two would especially enjoy them, and appreciate them more deeply, after your extensive travels. We keep both in full display in our house as a constant reminder to be efficient, effective, and ethical in our use of resources and enjoyment of the food we grow. We keep a daily record of what we eat and where it came from, and I'm considering starting to post that to our website as an interesting way to demonstrate the efficacy of our year-round fresh/local/quality food lifestyle. What do you think? Boring and self-indulgent, or of interest? In any case, I can't urge you enough to go find these books. Those photos, and that concept, originally source from the book “Hungry Planet”, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluzio. It’s a fascinating work that took them years to complete. For every country they visited, they worked with local government and other organizations to identify and locate a statistically “average” family, then lived with them for a week and photographed their week of food. It was an enourmous undertaking and produced one of the most fascinating, touching, and inspiring books you’ll ever read.

It has a companion volume called Material World, in which they do the same thing but photograph families with all of their wordly belongings; many of the families are the same in both books, but with many years between the two projects.

Please, please, find and buy copies of both of these books, and show them to everyone you know. I think you two would especially enjoy them, and appreciate them more deeply, after your extensive travels. We keep both in full display in our house as a constant reminder to be efficient, effective, and ethical in our use of resources and enjoyment of the food we grow.

We keep a daily record of what we eat and where it came from, and I’m considering starting to post that to our website as an interesting way to demonstrate the efficacy of our year-round fresh/local/quality food lifestyle. What do you think? Boring and self-indulgent, or of interest?

In any case, I can’t urge you enough to go find these books.

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