In 2006 my husband, photojournalist Peter Menzel, and I produced a book detailing the food that thirty families in twenty-four different countries consumed in one week’s time. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats presented portraits of these families each posed with one week’s worth of groceries. The response to the book and the subsequent exhibitions was overwhelming. But even before its publication we had begun a new global trek, taking our original concept — the food portrait — and applying it to individual people. We traveled the world again, this time photographing scores of different people from disparate backgrounds, each with one typical day’s worth of food. The result is What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.