Perspective

"Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio is written by a photographer and an editor who enjoy traveling. Peter is known for his coverage of international feature stories on the environment and on science. His photographs have won awards and have been published in a wide variety of magazines including "National Geographic," "The New York Times Magazine," "Life," Smithsonian," "GEO," "Stern," and "Time."

Faith is the lead writer and editor for the Material World book series. Together they co-created the books "Material World: A Global Family Portrait" and "Women in the Material World." They co-authored "Man Eating Bugs" and "Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species."

In order to create this book, they visited families they had met before while writing their previous book. They also visited some new families. As they traveled, the husband and wife team felt that it was important...