From the publisher inside dust cover flap:
“Photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D’Aluisio present thought-provoking portraits of 80 individuals and the food that fuels them over the course of a single day. With camera and notebook in hand, Peter and Faith traveled to 30 countries and more than a dozen U.S. states to shop, cook, and eat with a strikingly diverse range of people, including an Egyptian camel broker, a Japanese sumo wrestler, a Sudanese refugee in Chad, a Tibetan yak herder, a Bangladeshi factory seamstress, an Arctic hunter, an Indian Hindu sadhu, a Namibian diamond polisher, and a wound Iraq war veteran….
“This visual and textual feast highlights the similarities as well as the extreme differences in the ways that we approach and consume food around the world.”