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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ayme family in their kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, with one week's worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, and Orlando Ayme, sit flanked by their children (left to right): Livia, Natalie, Moises, Alvarito, Jessica, Orlando hijo (Junior, held by Ermelinda), and Mauricio. The Ayme family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 106).
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  • The small village of Tingo, Ecuador (at 11,000 feet). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, 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). Cultivating potatoes on a windy afternoon, Ermelinda Ayme wraps her baby in two shawls tied in different directions. When she and her husband Orlando arrived at the field, a ten-minute walk from their home in Tingo, Ecuador, they said a quick prayer to Pacha Mamma (Mother Earth) before working the land. Occasionally, Ermelinda has to adjust the baby's position, but generally she has no problem carrying her tiny passenger. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 117).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Ayme family heads off to cultivate one of their potato fields on their small farm in the village of Tingo, near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut in Tingo, Ecuador, cleaning barley in the light from the doorway. After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the family's adobe walled cooking house in Tingo, Ecuador, Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo cooks empanada over a fire for breakfast. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house as one of her sons watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, as one of her sons' watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (Supporting image from Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Orlando Ayme helps his wife in their detached kitchen house cut carrots for soup in Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the family's adobe walled cooking house, in Tingo, Ecuador, Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo sifts flour that she will add to thickened soup cooked over a fire for breakfast as her husband and 3 of her 8 children eat. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ayme family sits on the dirt floor of their kitchen and eats soup and empanadas for breakfast in Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Ayme family members and relatives eat sitting on the dirt floor of the family's cooking house in Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ayme family on their way to the weekly market in Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • One of the buildings at the town plaza in Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Orlando Ayme sells two of his sheep at the Weekly market in the indigenous community of Zumbagua, Ecuador for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • Sheep in the Zumbagua market slaughterhouse, Zumbagua, Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 165).
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  • Alpaca heads outside the slaughterhouse in the weekly market in the indigenous community of Zumbagua, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Alpaca heads outside the slaughterhouse in the weekly market in the indigenous community of Zumbagua, Ecuador. Alpaca meat is eaten. The heads are used for soup. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fish from the coast for sale at the mountain village market in Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • In the town plaza in Simiatug, Ecuador, a woman sells a large paper cone of fried potatoes to people waiting for busses or passing by for 25 cents US. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • In Simiatug, Ecuador, Ermelinda Ayme buys food at the coop "the best prices for indigenous people," she says. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 110).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way to the weekly market in Simiatug, Ecuador, Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo carries Orlando Jr. on her back. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Market day  in Ecaudor is bustling as families from all over the hills stock up on food. Here a man ties a 100-lb. bag of potatoes onto his wife's back. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 110).
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  • Returning from the weekly market in Simiatug with most of their purchases strapped onto a borrowed horse, Orlando Ayme leads the horse. Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo and Livia Rocío follow. Their home in Tingo is an hour walk. This week Orlando sold two sheep for $35 to buy food for his family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Making the long return trip to their home in Tingo, Ecuador from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Returning from the weekly market in Simiatug with most of their purchases strapped onto a borrowed horse, Orlando Ayme leads the horse and Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, and Livia Rocío follow. Their home in Tingo, Ecuador is an hour walk up the mountain. Orlando sold two sheep for $35 to buy food for his family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • In the afternoon, after the women work in the fields in Tingo, Ecaudor, Ermelinda Ayme's sisters often come to visit. The women gossip, and nurse their babies, snacking on small potatoes and corn that has been parched and roasted. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 115).
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  • One of the bars in Simiatug, Ecuador, on market day. Taking advantage of their visit to town, men (and a few women) throng the taverns, to drink Andean beer and local hard liquor. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Taking advantage of their visit to town, men (and a few women) throng the taverns, to drink Andean beer. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 111).
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  • One of the bars in Simiatug, Ecuador, on market day. Taking advantage of their visit to town, men (and a few women) throng the taverns, to drink Andean beer and local hard liquor. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Sheep's head soup for sale in the colorful weekly market, Zumbagua, Ecuador (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131)
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  • Girls tending to alpacas and sheep grazing on the altiplano grasslands near Simiatug, Ecuador, at about 9,000 feet elevation (3,000 meters). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Sheep, cattle, and alpacas are rounded up in a corral on a hillside near a family compound near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Clothes drying in the sun on a hillside near a family compound near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Unheated public school classroom in the village of Tingo, which is near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Young woman wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Patchwork fields on steep hills near Ambato, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Although prices are higher, some who can afford them prefer to shop in the supermarkets because foreign brands, local produce and meat products can be found in one location, under one roof. Supermarkets are generally a new phenomenon in Ecuador as the large outdoor markets have long been a way of life for Ecuadorians. Though the outdoor markets still exist, supermarkets have begun to replace them in the bigger cities. Quito, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A woman living on a small farm about 5 miles from the village of Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) are a popular food all around Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 130)
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Weekly market in the indigenous community of Zumbagua, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Zumbagua has a vegetable market big enough to attract a few tourists. The town even has a small hotel or two. Zumbagua is midway between the high Andes and the coastal lowlands; its market, supplied by both climatic zones, creates a kind of ecological collision, with purple mountain potatoes and bumpy red oca tubers vying for space with tropical pineapples and blocks of coarse brown sugar. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 112).
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  • Zumbagua has a vegetable market big enough to attract a few tourists. The town even has a small hotel or two. Zumbagua is midway between the high Andes and the coastal lowlands; its market, supplied by both climatic zones, creates a kind of ecological collision, with purple mountain potatoes and bumpy red oca tubers vying for space with tropical pineapples and blocks of coarse brown sugar. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Weekly market in the indigenous community of Zumbagua, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A vendor cleans corn as she waits for customers in the Santa Carolina Market, Quito, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Supermarkets are generally a new phenomenon in Ecuador as the large outdoor markets have long been a way of life for Ecuadorians. Though they still exist, supermarkets have begun to replace them in the bigger cities. Quito, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador, specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Vegetables in the Santa Carolina Market, Quito, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Chickens packaged with eggs in the Santa Carolina Market, Quito, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Cereal choices in a Quito, Ecuador, supermarket. Supermarkets are generally a new phenomenon in Ecuador as the large outdoor markets have long been a way of life for Ecuadorians. Quito, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A fruit vendor waits for customers in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador. Vendors often sell the same foods as their neighboring competitors. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador, specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador, specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Steak cooked to order in an upscale restaurant outside Quito is served with mushroom gravy and banana fritters. Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Close up of steak cooked to order in an upscale restaurant outside Quito, served with mushroom gravy and banana fritters. Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • The town of Latacunga's lunchtime specialty: chugchucaras (pork, bananas, corn, and empanadas), Latacunga, Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 245).
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