What the World Eats

A favourite Infusion activity is consuming food (and, for many of us, preparing it beforehand). I was fascinated to come across a photo essay called What the World Eats; this is a photo diary of what's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe. You can see a week's worth of food in each home, together with the cost. The photos are taken by Peter Menzel, from the book Hungry Planet.

There is an accompanying article, How the World Eats, in Time magazine. This discusses the trend of families across the globe abandoning traditional diets and dining habits, the face of Westernization. In the photo essay, a Sudanese family of six in a refugee camp in Chad ate food to the value of $1.23 while the family of four in the UK spent £155.54 on food. If this challenges you as much as it challenges me, check out the Tearfund and Christian Aid websites