Family Food Portraits
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American photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D’Aluisio have traveled the world documenting that most basic of human behaviors—what we eat. Their project, “Hungry Planet,” depicts everything that an average family consumes in a given week—and what it costs. The pair released their book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” in 2005, showcasing meals in 24 countries.
The Brown family of Riverview, Australia with a week’s worth of food: Doug Brown, 54, and his wife Marge, 52, with their daughter Vanessa, 32, and her children, Rhy, 12, Kayla, 15, John, 13, and Sinead, 5. The length of the Brown’s grocery list changes depending on whether Vanessa and her children are living with them at the moment. Cooking methods: electric stove, microwave, and BBQ. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer. Favorite foods- Doug: In Shingkhey, a remote hillside village of a dozen homes, Nalim and Namgay’s family assembles in the prayer room of their three-story rammed-earth house with one week’s worth of food for their extended family of thirteen. The Namgay family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 36).
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