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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, in their living room with a week's worth of food. Cui Haiwang, 33, and Li Jinxian, 31, stand with their son, Cui Yuqi, 6, Haiwang's mother, Wu Xianglian, 61, and father, Cui Lianyou, 59, and Haiwang's grandmother, Cui Wu, 79. The Cui family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 82).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast at the Cuis' includes fresh eggs from the family hens and hot mian tiao (noodles) with a little cooked spinach and MSG. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Two hours later, lunch is ready. Six-year-old Cui Yuqi reaches for a piece of smoked chicken in the family's kitchen house. Other foods on the table include (clockwise from bottom) cauliflower and beef; pig's feet; dried tofu curd and cucumber; cucumber and beef; steamed egg-white custard; stir-fried green peppers and beef. The tomatoes in the center were picked from their kitchen garden that morning. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 88). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • The Cui family lunch always includes rice and vegetables fresh from the garden like tomatoes and squash, but also includes chicken, pigs' feet, beef, tofu, and egg-white custard. Weitaiwu Village, China. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 244). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Cui Yuqi, 6, eats breakfast at the Cuis'. Today breakfast includes fresh eggs from the family hens and hot mian tiao (noodles) with a little cooked spinach and MSG. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Cui Yuqi, 6, eats breakfast at the Cuis'. Today breakfast includes fresh eggs from the family hens and hot mian tiao (noodles) with a little cooked spinach and MSG. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Cui Yuqi, 6, looks out from a curtain separating his bedroom from the main room. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Visiting a fruit vendor in another nearby town, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang watch as a watermelon they are buying is weighed. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Li Jinxian always likes to buy fruit from the same vendor, a woman whom she has built a rapport with over time. This week her husband, Cui Haiwang, has come shopping with her; usually he's away working in Beijing. Both husband and wife are discriminating fruit and vegetable shoppers. Sniffing and pinching each item before deciding on a purchase is standard operating procedure. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 85). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Visiting a fruit vendor in another nearby town, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang sniff the plums to find the ripest, sweetest fruit. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 86). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Shopping for the week's worth of food in the family portrait, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang buy chicken, lamb, and pork at the Luckybird Meat Store No. E0001 in the market town nearest their small village of Weitaiwu, which is located in the Beijing Province of China. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 86). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Visiting their town market, Cui Haiwang chooses string beans while his wife and son watch. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Outside the Luckybird meat market in a nearby town, Li Jinxian (in yellow shirt) selects eggs to buy. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Loaded down with groceries for the family portrait, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang are met by Grandfather Cui with his sanlun che (three-wheeled cart) at the entrance to the narrow lane leading to their home. The Cui family (indeed, most rural Chinese) would never buy this quantity of food at one time, but would buy smaller quantities every day. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 87). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)."Never could we have imagined that we would ever have this much to eat," says Grandfather Cui, reflecting on his childhood in the village as he has a smoke in his cornfield. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 91). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Cui Lianyou, 59, walks by some neighbors on the way to his cornfield which is about 2 kilometers from the family's home in Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Wu Xianglian, 61 in front of the outdoor kitchen of the family compound. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Breakfast at the Cuis' includes fresh eggs from the family hens and hot mian tiao (noodles) with a little cooked spinach and MSG. The round chopping block is made from a slice of tree trunk, a common practice in China. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 89). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Chopping squash for a lunch of squash, cauliflower, squash, mushrooms and green onions, and chicken at the Cuis of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province. The round chopping block is made from a slice of tree trunk, a common practice in China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Li Jinxian, 31, in the Cui family kitchen preparing a lunch of squash, cauliflower, squash, mushrooms, green pepper and green onions at the Cuis of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province. (Supporting image from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Today on the Cui family's lunch menu: homemade baozi. Baozi are steamed bread filled usually with a pork mixture. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Preparing a lunch of squash, cauliflower, mushrooms and green onions at the Cuis of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province. The round chopping block is made from a slice of tree trunk, a common practice in China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the courtyard that morning, Li Jinxian husks corn from their cornfield under the watchful eye of Great-grandmother Cui Wu. The family will eat some of the corn and trade the rest; the husks go to the sheep. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 89). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the courtyard on a summer morning, Li Jinxian squats after husking corn from their cornfield under the watchful eye of Great-grandmother Cui Wu. The family will eat some of the corn and trade the rest; the husks go to the sheep. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Wu Xianglian, 61 helps a neighbor girl learn to ride her grandson's new bicycle in the courtyard of the Cui family home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • In Beijing's Forbidden City a middle-aged couple in Zhongshan Park practices ball room dancing to recorded music. Nearby, hundreds of people practice the long-standing tradition of morning group dance and more traditional Chinese exercise. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Dong family in the living room of their one-bedroom apartment in Beijing, China, with a week's worth of food. Seated by the table are Dong Li, 39, and his mother, Zhang Liying, 58. Behind them stand Li's wife, Guo Yongmei, 38, and their son, Dong Yan, 13. The Dong family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 74).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED: EXCEPT FOR CHECKOUT BOY) Finishing their weekly grocery shopping expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, go through the checkout line. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. In other ways, the supermarket hews closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs (Mr. Dong at right) of Beijing, China, inspect fresh meat at the butcher counter. In other ways too, the supermarket hews closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs (at left) of Beijing, China, inspect fish and sushi rolls. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, inspect a tray of live crabs. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Live crabs at Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain in Beijing, China. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 204).
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  • A vendor takes a nap on his brass good luck frogs at Beijing's Panjiajuan weekend antique/flea market. China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Shrink-wrapped meat for sale at one of the bigger Ito Yokado supermarkets (a Japanese chain) in Bejing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Dong family, of Beijing, China, haul their groceries up the stairwell to their newly redecorated fourth-floor flat. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 81). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Steam rises in clouds from the huge woks of this noodle vendor in Kunming, in southwest China. Cooked in the celebrated style of the city of Guiyang, 300 miles away, these egg noodles are served in a spicy broth and topped with chicken, beef, shiitake mushrooms, or (most famously) pig intestines and blood. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 14).
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  • Qing Ping market, Guangzhou, China. The sign for that stall says it sells pork. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Sea horses, cicadas, and silkworm pupae on skewers for sale in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 130).
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  • Chinese cities are among the world capitals of street food, with stands selling an extraordinary variety of treats. In central Beijing, the Enrong Roasted Meat Store offers "Brazilian roasted meat" (left foreground, the vertical, rotating stack of meat), "fresh-boiled" and "honey-roasted" corn on the cob, "Mongolian grasslands roasted meat," dry, tire-black "stinky tofu," and a rack of skewered scorpions (under salesman's outstretched arm). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 77). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Sea horses, cicadas, silkworm pupae, squid, baby chickens, and stinky tofu at a street food market in Beijing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Many restaurants and markets in China hew closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. Here a worker is offering samples in a faux-Mongolian outfit. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Sea horses, cicadas, silkworm pupae and stinky tofu in Beijing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • McDonald's icon in Shanghai, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • Advertisement on the window of a McDonald's restaurant in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • McDonald's restaurant, Beijing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • Chinese McDonald's in Shanghai's Pudong new area. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • McDonald's fast food chain in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • A newer common sight is the long line of younger or newly affluent urbanites ending at the cash register of the biggest Western fast-food chain in China; their choice, on the left, is the "Leisurely Fried Wings Meal." More than a hundred KFC outlets operate in Beijing alone. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 78). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Beijingers and travelers alike flock to the specialty restaurants, like Beijing Qianmen Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant 32, Qianmen Street, for their very own Peking duck dinner. These succulent ducks will be served whole and cut tableside after the flurry of activity on the part of several cooks and assistants to prepare them in large roasting ovens. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Ducks for sale in the old Qingping market, Guangzhou, China. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 164). Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Fish still pulsing with life are sliced open for display and sale to Chinese customers, for whom freshness is very important. Qing Ping market, Guangzhou. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Cow head hanging in the municipal market in Guilin, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Chicken and ducks for sale in Chinese open markets are shown live then either killed immediately or brought home live. The Chinese insistence on fresh food treats with suspicion anything that is already dead. This is changing somewhat in urban centers as Western style supermarkets become more ubiquitous in the country. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Menghan Sunday Market in Xishuangbanna, China (near the Burma border) is green and leafy in the spring with cucumbers, squash, green onions, long beans, leeks, and bok choy. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Xishuangbanna, China.
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  • Sunday is the big market day in Menghan, China. Menghan is near Jinhong, on the border with Burma. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • China's women who hail from the cultural minorities buy and sell in the Menghan Sunday Market in Xishuangbanna, near the Burma border. China is green and leafy in the spring with cucumbers, squash, green onions, long beans, leeks, and bok choy..(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • As delicious as the slurpy noodles in broth are in this area of Kunming, there is a strange disconnect with the stench of the nearby grossly vented sewer. The noodles called "across the bridge" noodle (guoqiao mixian) are a Yunnan province regional specialty. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • On a Beijing street, photojournalist Peter Menzel discovers that the taste and texture of a deep-fried starfish are less than stellar. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 287).
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  • With Beijing's Forbidden City glowing mistily in the background, a group of middle-aged women in Zhongshan Park practices the long-standing tradition of morning group dance and exercise. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 79). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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