My life hasn't produced much blog fodder recently. I'm trying to learn to read German, or at least to pass tests on reading German. Turns out German has a whole lot of words in it. Hrrrmph.
The internet, on the other hand, continues to be interesting, and Jeff continues to be good at finding the interesting parts. So if (for example) your go-to online German dictionary is suddenly not working, you might want to check out these photos:
Hungry Planet, Part I
Hungry Planet, Part II
They're pictures of families in different countries, photographed with what they eat in a week. Really fascinating. I never would have guessed how much meat they go through in Australia. Or that bananas (and Ritz crackers) are nearly universal. Or how much candy Europeans eat. Or how shockingly little food there is in Chad. Bonus: it's all in pictorial form, no reading required.
I'd be curious to see what our photograph would look like. We like to think of ourselves as moderately healthy eaters, of course, but depending on the week we might end up with a pile of cans and boxes, with just a wee little corner of fresh foods. A good note-to-self as we go into prime vegetable season.
Look at that, the dictionary is back up. And for some reason my translations have failed to write themselves in the meantime.
Auf wiedersehen!
