TOPIA 18 | 177 REVIEW Kelly Bronson What We All Hunger For A Review of Menzel, Peter and Faith D’Aluisio. 2005. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Napa, CA: Material World Books. ¤ By now it’s a truism that you can know someone by the food that they eat. First popularized by the gastronomers of 17th-century France, the idea that “you are what you eat” referred to how one’s character was relected in their adherence to the orthodoxies of civilization, or how they behaved at the dinner table. Today we can judge more than one’s social class by one’s food choices and this has something to do with the complexity of modern eating. Increasingly, food is grown in one country, shipped to another for processing and yet another for consumption. Complicated and contentious trade agreements regulate the movement of food commodities around the globe. Many of us are overwhelmed by food choice and seek advice from the fairly new discipline of nutritional science (Pollan 2007). At the same time, almost 800 million of the world’s people live in chronic hunger. he food choices we make today say something not just about our personal character, but also about the opportunities available to us, and how we choose to use them. Choosing to buy local and organically grown produce, for example, is for many people a way of reclaiming a community-level relationship