What the World Eats

This is less about the photos, more about the cool idea, but the photos are still essential to the story. The TIME mag photo essay is from a book called "Hungry Planet" by Peter Menzel, and in it he's photographed families around the world - from California to North Carolina to Tingo to Sicily to Breidjing Camp - standing next to their dinner tables, which are covered in everything they eat in a week, and in the caption he's also put what they spend on food weekly and some family recipes. One of the more obvious differences is the amount of packaged food vs. produce eaten by families in the US vs. families from everywhere else.