Young and Brilliant

Brainpickings covered Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio’s Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a photographic journey to 24 countries, where the authors stayed with 30 different families for a week each, documenting on paper and film what these families ate and how much it cost. Here, we have the Revis family of North Carolina, with a food expenditure of $341.98, and The Mendozas family of Todos Santos (Guatemala), with a food expenditure of 573 Quetzales ($75.70). You can view more photos from the book at TIME. If you’ve never seen a book like this, they can be quite stunning.