What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets

Name: What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets
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ISBN: 9780984074402

ISBN-10: 0984074406

ISBN-13: 9780984074402

Edition: 2010

Authors: Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio

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A stunning photographic collection featuring portraits of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day. In this fascinating study of people and their diets, 80 profiles are organized by the total number of calories each person puts away in a day. Featuring a Japanese sumo wrestler, a Massai herdswoman, world-renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria, an American competitive eater, and more, these compulsively readable personal stories also include demographic particulars, including age, activity level, height, and weight. Essays from Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham, journalist Michael Pollan, and others discuss the implications of our modern diets for our health and for the…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Material World Books
Publication date: 8/10/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.37" wide x 12.32" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 4.510
Language: English

Peter Menzel is an internationally known photojournalist who writes many of his books in collaboration with his wife, Faith D'Aluisio. Titles of some include "Material World: A Global Family Portrait," "Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects" (the writing of which required the two to actually devour bugs), and "Women in the Material World."

Faith D'Aluisio is a former television news producer. Her documentary and news series pieces have won regional and national awards from the Headlines Foundation, United Press International, Associated Press, and the Radio-Television News Directors Association. Together with Peter Menzel, she is the co-creator of the books Material World: A Global Family Portrait and Women in the Material World; and is the co-author of Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.