Exploring the “Hungry Planet”

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  04.24.06 | 5:49 PM ET

imageOur favorite Washington Post travel book critic, Jerry V. Haines, reviewed an intriguing new title Sunday, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. It’s a collection of coffee-table-quality photos and writing about what families eat and drink in 24 countries. Writes Haines: “We watch them cook and learn how they shop or forage: hunting seals, traveling three hours down a mountain to buy fresh fruit, braving a crowded Chinese supermarket as loud as ‘a football stadium in overtime.’ We encounter puzzles, such as why we’re getting fatter as we get unhealthier. Or why Okinawa has so many centenarians: Could it be their dictum, ‘Eat only until 80 percent full’?” It’s a great idea for a book.

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