What Do We Eat?: How Humans Find, Grow and Share Food (Orca Timeline, 7)

Every day, no matter where we are or where we need to go, humans need food.

Imagine carrying meals with you as you parachute into a war zone. Or trying to stay well fed while building the pyramids. People have always found ways to work together to put a meal on the table. What Do We Eat? is a delicious celebration of human creativity and cooperation, wrapped up in bite-sized slices of history, with a look at what scientists and inventors are cooking for the future. We are gobbling up Earth’s resources, and food is not shared equally. But today there's a magic tree transforming the dry African plains, food “ambulances” on the move and cities that have declared access to food a human right. Hungry to find out more? Let’s roll up our sleeves and find out what’s for dinner.

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Megan Clendenan is an award-winning children’s author. Her books include Cities: How Humans Live Together (Children’s Book Council 2024 Librarian’s Favorite), and Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment (2023 Green Earth Book Award Winner), What Do We Eat?: How Humans Find, Grow and Share Food (Children’s Book Council 2025 Teacher’s Favorite) and she has more books on the way! Megan loves speaking with readers at festivals, schools and libraries. She lives near Vancouver.

Meegan Lim is an illustrator and arts facilitator striving to nurture community growth and healing through visual arts. She holds a bachelor of design and illustration from OCAD University. Her work primarily focuses on the intersections of food and cultural identity, manifesting through detailed gouache illustrations, digital paintings and risograph zines. Her illustrations have been featured in Chatelaine, Eater, Broken Pencil Magazine and the book What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings. Meegan lives in Brampton, Ontario.