num_pages: 288
description: 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. 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.
language: English
title: Hungry Planet
titlecomplete: Hungry Planet
genres: Cooking, Cultural, Travel, Photography, Cookbooks, Picture Books, Food, Nonfiction, Sociology, Geography
ratings_count: 1773
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Beard Foundation Book Award
category: Writings on Food, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Harry Chapin Media Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year
publisher: Material World