Adapted from Peter Menzel's "hungry Planet"
instructions
Your group’s goal is to create a Weekly Food Portrait that has a similar format to Peter Menzel's "Hungry Planet" food portraits. Your group will collaborate together to insert pictures of food into a Google Drawing document. For example, if anyone in your group ate bananas, insert a picture of bananas. If a family member ate a “Number 1” at In N Out, then insert a picture of a Number 1 combo from In N Out. Group your foods into categories that help visualize and organize the pictures. You can use the following categories:
Step by Step Instructions:
Food Log Submission Form
Peter Menzel's "Hungry Planet" Food Portraits
How to share a link to a Google Doc.
- Fruits & Vegetables (apples, carrots, etc)
- Proteins (steak, milk, cheese, tofu, etc)
- Grains (bread, rice, etc.)
- Prepared Meals (fast food, restaurants, etc)
- Processed Food (candy, soda, sugary cereals, instant noodles, etc.)
Step by Step Instructions:
- Submit food log records via the submission form.
- Create a Google Drawing file. You only need one per group.
- Rename the file to "Period # - Group # - Family Name" which indicates your period, group, and family name.
- Add your group members as collaborators to the file.
- Share a link to your file with [email protected]
- Add pictures of food which visually represents everything your group ate last week.
- Include a Family Name and brief description.
- Be prepared to share your groups Weekly Food Portrait with the rest of the class
Food Log Submission Form
Peter Menzel's "Hungry Planet" Food Portraits
How to share a link to a Google Doc.
Peter Menzel's "hungry Planet" (2005)
Australia
The Brown family of Riverview, Australia with a week's worth of food: Doug Brown, 54, and his wife Marge, 52, with their daughter Vanessa, 32, and her children, Rhy, 12, Kayla, 15, John, 13, and Sinead, 5. The length of the Brown's grocery list changes depending on whether Vanessa and her children are living with them at the moment. Cooking methods: electric stove, microwave, and BBQ. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer. Favorite foods- Doug: "Anything anyone else cooks." Marge: yogurt. Sinead: Mackas (McDonald's). Food expenditure for one week: $457.04 USD (adjusted for inflation).
india
The Patkar family: Jayant, 48, Sangeeta, 42, daughter Neha, 19, and son Akshay, 15 in the living room of their home in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, with one week's worth of food. Cooking method: gas stove. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer. Food expenditure for one week: $47.68 USD (adjusted for inflation).
china
The Dong family in the living room of their one-bedroom apartment in Beijing, China, with a week's worth of food. Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce. Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $188.26 (adjusted for inflation).
egypt
The Ahmeds' extended family in the Cairo apartment of Mamdouh Ahmed, 35 (glasses), and Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36 (brown headscarf), with a week's worth of food.Egypt. Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $83.20. Family recipe: Okra and mutton.
Mali
The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. Food expenditure for one week: 17,670 francs or $32.39 (adjusted for inflation). Family Recipe: Natomo Family Rice Dish.
italy
In the kitchen of their apartment in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, the Manzo family: Giuseppe, 31, Piera Marretta, 30, and their sons (left to right) Mauritio, 2, Pietro, 9, and Domenico, 7 stand and sit around a week's worth of food. Cooking methods: gas stove, microwave. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer. Favorite foods: Giuseppe (who is a fishmonger): fish. Piera and Domenico: pasta with ragú (meat sauce). Pietro: hot dogs. Mauritio: frozen fish sticks. Food expenditure for one week: $315.80 USD.
Turkey
The Çelik family in the main room of their three-room apartment in Istanbul, Turkey, with a week's worth of food. Mêhmêt Çelik, 40, stands between his wife Melahat, 33 (in black), and her mother, Habibe Fatma Kose, 51. Sitting on the couch are their children (back to front) Mêtin, 16, Semra, 15, and Aykut, 8. Cooking method: gas stove. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer. Food expenditure for one week: $177.11 USD (adjusted for inflation).
mexico
The Casales family in the open-air living room of their home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with a week's worth of food. Marco Antonio, 29, and Alma Casales Gutierrez, 30, stand with baby Arath, 1, between them. At the table are their older children, Emmanuel, 7, and Bryan, 5. Cooking method: gas stove. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer. Favorite foods: Marco Antonio: pizza. Alma: crab. Emmanuel: pasta. Bryan: crab and candy. Arath: chicken. Food expenditure for one week: $229.57 USD.
ecuador
The Ayme family in their kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, with one week's worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, and Orlando Ayme, 35, sit flanked by their children (left to right): Livia, 15, Natalie, 8, Moises, 11, Alvarito, 4, Jessica, 10, Orlando hijo (Junior, held by Ermelinda), 9 months, and Mauricio, 30 months. Not in photograph: Lucia, 5, who lives with her grandparents to help them out. Cooking method: wood fire. Food preservation: natural drying. Food expenditure for one week: $38.30 USD (adjusted for inflation).
united states
The Revis family in the kitchen of their home in suburban Raleigh, North Carolina, with a week's worth of food. Ronald Revis, and Rosemary Revis, stand behind Rosemary's sons from her first marriage, Brandon Demery, (left), and Tyrone Demery. Food expenditure for one week: $415.19 (adjusted for inflation). Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken.