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  • The Cabaña family in the main room of their 200-square-foot apartment in Manila, the Philippines, with a week's worth of food. Seated are Angelita Cabaña, 51, her husband, Eduardo Cabaña, 56 (holding sleeping grandson Dave, 2), and their son Charles, 20. Eduardo, Jr., 22 (called Nyok), his wife Abigail, 22, and their daughter Alexandra, 3, stand in the kitchen. Behind the flowers is the youngest son, Christian, 13 (called Ian). The Cabaña family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Cabaña family in the main room of their 200-square-foot apartment in Manila, the Philippines, with a week's worth of food. Seated are Angelita Cabaña, 51, her husband, Eduardo Cabaña, 56 (holding sleeping grandson Dave, 2), and their son Charles, 20. Eduardo, Jr., 22 (called Nyok), his wife Abigail, 22, and their daughter Alexandra, 3, stand in the kitchen. Behind the flowers is the youngest son, Christian, 13 (called Ian). The Cabaña family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 234).
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  • Typical street in Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • McDonald's fast food restaurant in Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • McDonald's fast food restaurant in Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • McDonald's fast food chain restaurant in Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fast food in Manila runs the gamut from American fast food stores to take-away chains such as Kiss, King of Balls, to the home grown varieties such as Jollibee, pictured here. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A butcher and pork at the Divisoria market, Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 164).
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  • A karaoke lunch of chicken, crabs, soup, and spring rolls in Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 245).
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  • Supermarket shoppers checking out at the Pure Gold Grocery Store in Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Vendors selling a variety of vegetables at the Divisoria market, Manila, Philippines. (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 woman eats pancit (noodles) as she waits for buyers of any of her hundreds of Santo Niño and other religious statues during the Philippines festival of the Santo Niño. Many Filipinos in this predominantly Catholic population have similar statues, which they parade through the streets once a year. The tourism department of the Philippines calls Metro Manila's Santo Niño Festival "a grand procession of over 200 well-dressed images of the child Jesus." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) The family of Angelita Cabaña of Manila has their own Santo Niño statue in the living room of their small home.
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  • Pig and chicken intestines, pig blood, and fatty pork are common beloved street foods in Manila, Philippines. Isaw (pig and chicken small-intestine barbecue) is a national favorite, as is taba (pieces of pork fat skewered onto a stick and deep-fried). Dugo is curdled and congealed pig blood, cut into chunks, skewered, and then grilled. Cow blood is too strong tasting to use, say the street vendors. Adidas, named after the running shoe, is barbecued chicken feet. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pig and chicken intestines, pig blood, and fatty pork are common beloved street foods in Manila, Philippines. Isaw (pig and chicken small-intestine barbecue) is a national favorite, as is taba (pieces of pork fat skewered onto a stick and deep-fried). Dugo is curdled and congealed pig blood, cut into chunks, skewered, and then grilled. Cow blood is too strong tasting to use, say the street vendors. Adidas, named after the running shoe, is barbecued chicken feet. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pig and chicken intestines, pig blood, and fatty pork are common beloved street foods in Manila, Philippines. Isaw (pig and chicken small-intestine barbecue) is a national favorite, as is taba (pieces of pork fat skewered onto a stick and deep-fried). Dugo is curdled and congealed pig blood, cut into chunks, skewered, and then grilled. Cow blood is too strong tasting to use, say the street vendors. Adidas, named after the running shoe, is barbecued chicken feet. (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131)
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  • Pig and chicken intestines, pig blood, and fatty pork are common beloved street foods in Manila, Philippines. Isaw (pig and chicken small-intestine barbecue) is a national favorite, as is taba (pieces of pork fat skewered onto a stick and deep-fried). Dugo is curdled and congealed pig blood, cut into chunks, skewered, and then grilled. Cow blood is too strong tasting to use, say the street vendors. Adidas, named after the running shoe, is barbecued chicken feet. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Carrots, cucumbers, peppers and other vegetables for sale at the Divisoria market, Manila, Philippines. (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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  • Young boy eats noodles by the fistful at a weekend festival in Manila. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Not everyone has a place to live in Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A few blocks away from the Cabañas' home in the Malate shopping area, Angelita Cabaña, buys a week's worth of rice for the photo shoot. Fortified storefronts are not unusual: most small sari-saris (variety/convenience shops, often just a window on the street) have similar rails, or bars, for security. Angelita's purchase is unusual: most people in this working-class area buy smaller amounts, handing in their money then getting their rice beneath the bars. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 238).
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  • Vendors selling a variety of vegetables at the Divisoria market, Manila, Philippines. (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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  • Jammed into the narrow valley between Manila Bay and the Sierra Madre Mountains, Metro Manila's more than 14 million people, many of them very poor, use every square foot of available space. Makeshift shanties jostle high-rise apartments; neighborhoods built on stilts spill into tidal flats, rivers, and the sea. Backed up against a set of railroad tracks, this street-food vendor squeezes her modest business into a space hardly bigger than a U.S. walk-in closet. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 237). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • In Manila, any square foot of extra space finds a use for someone. Squatters even set up little kitchens on the median between train tracks and time their cooking to work around the train schedule. Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55)
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  • In such hypercompetitive circumstances, Filipino fish vendors don't sell their wares by the pound or kilo. Instead, they charge by the tumpok (pile). The size of the tumpok varies moment by moment, according to demand. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Outside the Quiapo Market in the Philippines, people pick through the trash discarded from the early-morning wholesale market. Inside, the covered market is a tumult of activity and offers an extraordinary variety of goods, ranging from food, clothing, consumer electronics, and patent medicines to religious images and even prayers (busy people can outsource their prayers to the Quiapo Church's "prayer ladies"). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Dyed salty eggs, are sold on the street in Manila, Philippines (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131)
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  • Working just a few feet away from her mother's casket, a Manila woman fries up eggplant and tuyo (dried fish) for her family's dinner. She also serves coffee, biscuits, and peanuts to help keep the visitors awake. Many of the mourners are taking advantage of a quirk in Filipino law that permits gambling only at funerals. The loss of decorum does not upset the bereaved woman. She receives a percentage of the take from the gambling and uses the cash to help pay for the burial. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 241). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Fast food in Manila runs the gamut from American fast food stores to home grown varieties such as Jollibee, and the take-away chain Kiss, King of Balls, owned by a Manila businessman. Kikiam balls are ground pork and vegetables wrapped in sheets of bean curd; gulaman balls are sea weed gelatin. Squid and crab balls are composed of what the name implies. Over 250 shops are operated nationwide, and the company is expanding into other markets. Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94)
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  • Mountains of Manila's trash are picked through every day at the Payatas dumpsite outside Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Mountains of Manila's trash are picked through every day at the Payatas dumpsite outside Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Manila Environs, Bayside. Manila is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world. Residents build house on stilts out over the numerous riverbanks and tributaries leading into the bay.
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