Every day, millions of families around the world gather – at the table or on the floor, in a house or outdoors – to eat together. Ever wondered what a typical meal is like on the other side of the world? Or next door?

Cultural geographers Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio visited twenty-five families in twenty-one countries to create this fascinating look at what people around the world eat in a week. Meet a family that spends long hours hunting for seal and fish together; a family that raises and eats guinea pigs; a family that drinks six gallons of Coca-Cola a week.

Japan
Favorite foods: sashimi, fruit, cake, potato chips

Italy
Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks

Chad
Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

Kuwait
Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice

USA
Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

USA
Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken

USA
Favorite Foods: Shrimp with Alfredo sauce, chicken mole, barbecue ribs, pizza

Mexica
Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken

China
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour

Poland
Family recipe: Pig’s knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips

Egypt
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce

Ecuador
Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage

Mongolia
Family recipe: Mutton dumplings

Great Britain
Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream

Butan
Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork

Germany
Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding

Australia
Family Recipe: Marge Brown’s Quandong (an Australian peach) Pie, Yogurt

India
Family Recipe: Sangeeta Patkar’s Poha (Rice Flakes)

Mali
Family Recipe: Natomo Family Rice Dish

France
Favorite Foods: Delphine Le Moine’s Apricot Tarts, pasta carbonara, Thai food

Greenland
Favorite Foods: polar bear, narwhal skin, seal stew

Turkey
Favorite Foods: Melahat’s Puffed Pastries

Philippines

China

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cuba

Australia

Guatemala

Japan