What Do People Around The World Eat?

Weekly Food Budgets Around The World

HERE ARE THE PHOTOS

Sunday, January 13, 2008

What is eaten in one week...

This is an interesting photo comparison of what different families eat around the world in one week.

(Other recommended reading:  

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, and

 Material World: A Global Family Portrait).

Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food and some beverage expenditures for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27 

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food and some beverage expenditures for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53

Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
Food and some beverage expenditures for one week: $31.55

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food and some beverage expenditures for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
Food and some beverage expenditures for one week: 214.36 Euros or $230.11

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina 

Food and some beverage expenditures for one week $341.98 

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food and beverage expenditures for one week: 375.39 Euros or $400.

Localizing your searches -- world-wide

Don't limit yourself to reading the perspective of your neighbors.  When news involves people around the world, find out what they are writing.  Skip references ending in .edu or .com, and instead head directly to resources from the country of your inquiry.

For instance, rearching local resources in Germany, you'll use "Site.DE"  "De" stands for Deutschland.  (Including "site" as well as "DE" means that the content in your search will all be from your selected source extension -- here, from Germany.)  Can you guess the country "IR" stands for?  If you guessed Iran, you're right.

Here's a source for other country codes.

HERE's A SOURCE FOR OTHER COUNTRY CODES:

http://www.web-l.com/country-codes/

That's a great start.  But if you do a search using the local extension, but your search results uses the USA name or term, then your results will probably still be more biased than they are enlightening.  Try looking up the name the locals use for the same event.  For this task, Wikipedia is fine.

READ MORE HERE

Keep in mind that it's already a significant filter, if you are only able to read publications in English. That makes eliminating or reducing other filters even more critical yet, that is, if you truly are interested in what people in other countries are thinking and writing about. And in the age of the Internet, it only makes sense to make use of filtering tools such as these, wouldn't you agree?