An edition of What I eat
(2010)
What I eat
around the world in 80 diets
1st ed.
by Peter Menzel
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"A photographic collection with stories of 80 people and the food they eat over the course of one day, organized by total daily calorie count and including detailed food lists"--Provided by publisher.
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Food, Food habits, Photography of food, Pictorial works, DietShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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What I eat: around the world in 80 diets
2010, Material World Books, Ten Speed Press
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0984074406 9780984074402
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Table of Contents
800-1900 Calories per day: 800: Kenya, the Maasai herder
900: Botswana, the caretaker
1000: India, the Sadhu priest
1400: Bangladesh, the runaway train porter
1500: Namibia, the Himba pastoralist
1600: China, the extreme gamer ; USA Tennessee, candidate for obesity surgery
1700: USA New York, the weight-loss camper ; China, the acrobat
1800: Bangladesh, the factory seamstress
1900: Canada, the green teen ; USA Minnesota, the Mall of America staffer ; USA Pennsylvania, the calorie restrictor ; China, the citrus grower
Why we cook / Richard Wrangham
200-2400 calories: 2000: Bangladesh, the microloan milker ; USA Illinois, the taxi driver ; Namibia, the diamond polisher
2100: Vietnam, the American War veteran ; USA California, the Iraq War veteran ; India, the urine drinker
2300: Chad, the teenage refugee ; USA New York, the man on the street ; Iceland, the cod fisherman
2400: Iran, the miniaturist's daughter ; USA New York, the model student ; India, the bicycle rickshaw driver ; Kenya, the microloan fish fryer
The agony and the ecstacy of the calorie / Bijal P. Trivedi
2500-2900 calories: Vietnam, the rice farmer
2600 Canada, the sky-high manager ; USA Minnesota, the meat grinder ; China, the college student
2700: USA Texas, the astronaut ; Germany, the brewer; Taiwan, the street food vendor ; Yemen, the homemaker ; USA Arizona, the carpenter's assistant
2900: Mexico, the rancher
3000-2400 calories: 3000: India, the call center operator ; the Palestinian driver
3100: Israel, the rabbi ; Kenya, the tea plantation farmer ; Latvia, the beekeeper
3200: USA Illinois, the restaurant owner ; Egypt, the camel broker ; USA Kentucky, the coal miner
3300: Yemen, the Qat seller
3400: Brazil, the Amazon grandmother
Moving the idle masses / Mary Collins
Portion size matters / Lisa R. Young
3500-3900: 3500: Japan, the Sumo wrestler ; USA California, the paddle surfer
3600: USA Colorado, the greenskeeper
3700: Germany, the bread queen ; USA California, the wind farm engineer ; Australia, the lifeguard
3800: Ecuador, the mountain farmer ; USA Maine, the lobsterman
3900: Spain, the shepherd ; Latvia, the voice coach ; USA Virginia, the sustainable farmer ; Russia, the art restorer
Food taboos / Ellen Ruppel Shell
4000-4900 calories: 400: USA Texas, the U.S. Army soldier ; Italy, the friar ; Venezuela, the student in the Barrio ; Egypt, the businessman
4100: USA Illinois, the commodity farmer
4200: Spain, the bullfighter
4300: China, the welder ; Namibia, the game warden
4600: Germany, the master butcher
4700: Canada, the Inuit carver
4800: Japan,the bike messenger
4900: Tibet autonomous Region, China, the head monk ; Iran, the bread baker
The end of cooking / Michael Pollan
5000-12300 calories: 5200: Brazil, the fisherman
5400: USA Mississippi, the long-haul trucker
5600: Tibet Autonomous Region, China, the yak herder
6000: Venezuela, the oil platform chief
6500: Greenland, the Arctic hunter
6600: USA Illinois, the high-rise ironworker
8400: Namibia, the trans-Kalahari trucker
12300: Great Britain, the snacker mom
The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry
Statistics.
Edition Notes
"This book presents 80 people around the world and what they ate on one ordinary day. It is organized according to the number of calories consumed, from least to most."
Includes bibliographical references.
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