Hungry planet
by Peter Menzel · first published 2005
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"A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries surrounded by a week's worth of food"--Provided by publisher.
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The photography book Hungry Planet[1] by Peter Manzel shows what 30 families around the world typically purchase in groceries. Looking at them is almost like an exercise in find the bananas. A few of the families do not have bananas, but…
on “The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America” ↗The book you're thinking of is probably Hungry Planet[1] [1]https://menzelphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery/Hungry-Planet-F...
on “The best way to tour a city is through its grocery store” ↗Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel https://fstoppers.com/food/what-week-groceries-looks-around-...
on “The best way to tour a city is through its grocery store” ↗…nutritionally respectable. Maybe x% of the nutritional value was lost during freezing and storage. So what? It's not like I have any vitamin deficiencies. I'll use the time I save to flip through my copy of Hungry Planet. There's nothing wrong with cooking like this. As other posters have pointed out, johnswamps simply needs to learn to cook. On an entirely unrelated note, I had an odd realization while writing this…
on “Ask HN: got any food hacks?” ↗