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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Çelik family in the main room of their three-room apartment in Istanbul, Turkey, with a week's worth of food. Mêhmêt Çelik, 40, stands between his wife Melahat, 33 (in black), and her mother, Habibe Fatma Kose, 51. Sitting on the couch are their children (back to front) Mêtin, 16, Semra, 15, and Aykut, 8. The Çelik family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 252).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 10).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers in their living room. Left to right: Safiye Çinar, her mother Emine, and father Mehemet. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). At their home in Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, Safiye Çinar strokes the fire for heat while her parents Emine (left) and Mehemet (lying on the bed in the other room) rest nearby. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Feriye Çinar cleans up in the small kitchen of her family's home in the Golden Horn district of Istanbul, Turkey. She and her husband Sezgi moved here with his familiy from the Black Sea region of Turkey to make a better life for their family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, Safiye Çinar and her daughter-in-law Feriye works diligently on the family laundry. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At a neighborhood open-air market in Turkey, near one of Melahat Çelik's housekeeping jobs, she and her son Aykut buy eggs. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 257). The Çelik family of Istanbul, Turkey, 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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  • Fishermen catching istavrit (horse mackerel) line the Galata Bridge over the Bosphorus, the strait between the Black and Aegean seas. Located on a narrow isthmus between two bodies of water, the Turkish city of Istanbul (formerly known as Constantinople and, before that, Byzantium) long dominated the trade between Europe and Asia. The Galata District in the background, a hub for both entertainment and finance, is on the European side of the Bosphorus, both geographically and culturally. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 255). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Grinning around his cigarette, a fishmonger in an Istanbul market offers a Turkish favorite: the anchovy-like fish hamsi, which can be cooked, according to a Black Sea legend, in 40 different ways. In his canvas-covered stall, the vendor moves from neighborhood market to neighborhood market, each open a different day in the week. Generally, no two neighboring markets operate on the same day?they don't want the competition. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 256). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • In a Turkish market, near the Golden Horn, a butcher displays cow stomachs, hearts, livers, feet, and a head. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 257). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • On Friday, the noon prayers have begun and a vendor arranges his oranges while behind him men pray at a small mosque. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 258). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • A market vendor selling wedges of pumpkin squash on the streets of Istanbul haggles good naturedly with customers. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • A fish called hamsi for sale in Istanbul, Turkey. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 204).
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  • A vegetable stand at a market in Istanbul, Turkey. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Street vendor sells hard seeded biscuits from a wheeled cart on the street in Istanbul, Turkey. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Fruit, vegetable and women's intimate apparel for sale in the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Turkish vendors move about Istanbul from one area of the city to another to sell their wares at the street markets that are held on different days. Some wares are more popular than others, as evidenced by this seller of cheap kitchen gadgets. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Hot pretzels on offer near the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey. (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 130)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After Melahat Çelik mixes the arugula-feta filling for a savory Turkish pastry in her apartment kitchen, she sits on the living room floor and rolls paper-thin pastry called yufka around the filling to create an eggroll-style pastry her family loves. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 259).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Melahat Çelik mixes the dough for savory arugula-feta filled Turkish pastries in her apartment kitchen and then will sit on the living room floor and roll paper-thin pastry called yufka around the filling to create an eggroll-style pastry her family loves. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • An interior shot of the Hamman (Turkish bath). Istanbul, Turkey. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Cityscape of the Turkish city of Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople and, before that, Byzantium. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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