| Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| What the World Eats |
And speaking of Chef on a Shoestring, Time magazine has a fabulous photo essay on what a typical family spends on food for a week, called appropriately enough, What the World Eats.
The photos are beautiful, and come from a book project called The Hungry Planet.
The lowest amount, and the saddest photo, come from an African family in a refugee camp. They manage to survive on just $1.23 per person, and from the amount of food in front of them - just barely.
The most expensive family is not from the US. It's a family from a place called Bargteheide, a little town in Germany. They spend $500 a week.
Interestingly, most of the European or first world countries averaged around $200 a week, while less developed countries were between $35 and $60 a week, with not a whole lot of variation.
The happiest family seems to be this happy group from Ecuador:
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Did you notice the difference in fresh produce? Virtually all of the countries except the US and England had quite a lot. But the American and English spreads were practically all packaged foods -- I think I saw one piece of broccoli on the English one and that was it! Really interesting.
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Did you notice the difference in fresh produce? Virtually all of the countries except the US and England had quite a lot. But the American and English spreads were practically all packaged foods -- I think I saw one piece of broccoli on the English one and that was it! Really interesting.