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  • A brick hauler loads a stack of bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ruma Akhter (center) walks under washing lines in the slum settlement near her home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Children play just outside Marble Moahi's fence in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana.  (Marble Moahi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) .
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  • Riverboat passengers relax in a web of hammocks on the Solimoes River in Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A riverboat captain lunches on rice, beans, spaghetti, potatoes, and pork as he steers upstream from Manacapuru, on the Solimoes River in Brazil. iverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads. (From the Book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A man takes nap in a hammock on a riverboat in Manacapuru, Brazil. Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Riverboat traffic near Manacapuru  Brazil steams along the Solimoes River. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin. In the dry season the banks of the Solimoes are exposed, but during the rainy season the water rises 40 feet to the top of the banks, filling inland lakes and depositing a blanket of silt.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares her family's fish dinner by the light of an oil lamp at the kitchen window of their riverside farmhouse near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  With no indoor plumbing, she tackles anything messy on an overhanging counter, letting chickens and dogs clean up the scraps below.
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  • Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia's grandchildren use one of the family's outboard canoes to get to school in the nearby town of Caviana in Amazonia, Brazil, 20 minutes downriver.  (Solange Da Silva Correira is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A savory cornmeal cake steamed in a tin-can contraption invented by Francisco Da Silva Correia, a rancher who lives with his wife, Solange,  and family in a riverside home near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil.  (Solange Da Silva Correira is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia helps her grandchildren get ready for school in their bedroom of her riverside home near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The children load up their backpacks and use one of the family's outboard canoes to get to school in nearby Caviana, 20 minutes downriver.
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva's floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Coco Simone Finken, a teenage vegetarian who lives in the city of Gatineau*, Quebec blows birthday candles on a homemade carrot cake baked by her mother and sister. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of October was 1900 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 130 pounds. The family doesn't own a car, buys organic food if it's not too expensive, and grows some of their own vegetables in their front yard. MODEL RELEASED
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  • A stone marker (inukshuk) sits on the crest of a hill above Iqaluit in Nunavut, Canada. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  These traditional Inuit stone markers are built to serve as landmarks in permafrost areas where there are no trees or other distinctive features. In the distance, a taxi climbs the grade on the Road to Nowhere, so named because Iqaluit isn't connected by road to the mainland?or to other parts of Baffin Island.
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  • Willie Ishulutak, an Innuit soapstone carver in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada roughs out the fins of a soapstone narwhal sculpture outside his mother's house in the suburb of Apex. (From the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Carving is one of the few traditions of the Inuit that has made the leap into the wage-earning modern world. Willie says he can complete two or three pieces in a day, then sell them in the evening at bars and restaurants in Iqaluit for $100 ($93 USD) each, and sometimes more. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A barge carrying food and supplies from the last cargo ship of the season is offloaded onto the rocky beach at low tide in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. (From the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.) Pack ice typically closes regional shipping lanes from October until early July. "Iqaluit" means 'place of many fish'.
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  • The CN Tower dominates the Toronto skyline in Ontario, Canada. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The 1,815-foot tower is illuminated by a recent multimillion-dollar lighting upgrade, and its nightly hues mirror the Canadian flag's colors of red and white. On Lake Ontario.
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  • Smoke from cookfires wafts up into the sky at dawn in Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sunrise ushers in another day of waiting. It's November, two months after the rainy season, but  temperatures are still low. Women sweep the dirt in front of their tents while children walk to the water depot with empty plastic containers as roosters crow and donkeys bray into the desert air, which is beginning to lose its nighttime chill.
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  • Workers enjoy a meal in the cafeteria of a construction company building the Zhrong Rong Jasper Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • A sky scrapper under construction looms above the rows of dormitories in which Huang Neng shares a room with nine other workers in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (From the coverage of welder Huang Neng in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • A troupe tries out its cycling act at the Shanghai Circus World, Shanghai, China, where acrobat Xiaoli Cao practices. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The new Shanghai Circus World building in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The domed building seats more than 1,600 people.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The bristling city of Pudong as seen from the roof garden of the Peace Hotel on the Bund in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Waglong Restaurant in Pudong, Shanghai, China, where freelance computer graphics artist and internet gamer Xu Zhipeng occasionally orders his meals. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Twice a day Xu Zhipeng tears himself away from an online game for less than a minute to order a meal. The food is delivered to his computer station 10 minutes later, where he eats it without interrupting his game.
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months at a time and continuously plays games. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States.
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  • Chen Zhen and her family share a meal of greens with garlic, potatoes with green bell pepper, rice, and fava beans with pig's knuckles at their home in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fatigue takes its toll on dedicated extreme gamer, Xu Zhipeng (left), who plays online games day and night at Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  he caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall and 157 pounds.  He lives at his computer station, day and night, sleeping there when he's tired and showering once a week at a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and three nights. When he tires of gaming at the café he reads fantasy books. ?It's nice to rest your eyes on a book,? he says, even though he's reading it online. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Preparation for lunch at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • The table is set for lunch at the home of widowed farmer Lan Guihua, who lives in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Neighbors of widowed farmer Lan Guihua make soymilk with a hand-powered stone mill at their home in Ganjiagou Village,  Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Taking advantage of their visit to town at the end of market day, men (and a few women) visit the taverns to drink Andean beer  in Simiatug, in the central Andes in Ecuador.
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  • A woman prepares sheep's head soup for sale in the colorful weekly market at Zumbagua in Ecuador.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, walks to a livestock market  with her husband and children in  Simiatug, Ecuador to sell sheep. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age 5 feet, 3 inches and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.
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  • Selling sheep at a livestock market in rural Ecuador to raise money to buy food for the family.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ermelinda's children enjoy soup and empanadas for breakfast in an earthen hut in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The family of eight consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out.
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  • Camels from Somalia stiffly walk down the ramp from a truck at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market, forcing them to hop around on just three legs. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance.
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  • Camels hop around on just three legs at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, weighs the food items consumed by Saleh Abdul Fadlallah at Birqash Camel Market, outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah grabs the wrist of a camel seller, using his brokering skills to end an argument and finalize a sale at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Truck drivers enjoy a mid-morning meal of sheep meat, potato, onion, tomato, and flat bread in a rustic restaurant stall at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works as a broker. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • George Bahna, an engineering company executive and martial arts instructor exercising in a special room in his apartment in Zamelek, Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 4000 kcals.  He is 29 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 165 pounds. George eats four to five times a day but doesn't worry about gaining weight because he's active, working out in a special room in his flat and at the private Gezira Sporting Club near his apartment. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • English Breakfast prepared by Francis Achache in London, UK.
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  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide, bastes chicken for Sunday dinner in her kitchen in Willesden, London, United Kingdom. (Jill McTighe is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average.  Jill is 31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family.  MODEL RELEASED. [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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  • Sunday dinner of baked chicken, potatoes, and frozen veggies prepared by Jill McTighe at her home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average.  Jill is 31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family. ?Do I cook? Yes, but not cakes. I roast. Nothing ever, ever is fat-fried!?  Jill herself is MODEL RELEASED. [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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  • Jill McTighe (right), a mother and school aide,  enjoys dinner with her husband Earl Gillespie and their children at their home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average.  Jill is  31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family. Jill herself is MODEL RELEASED  [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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  • Marcus Dirr (left), a master butcher, makes sausages at his shop in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, while his father Peter Dirr, a chief butcher, operates the controls of a mixer. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in March was 4600 kcals. He is 43 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 160 pounds. The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sausages made by master butcher Marcus Dirr with his father Peter Dirr, chief butcher, at his shop in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • After hours of work and a breakfast of pretzel bread, sausage, and coffee, Markus and his wife, Sonja, discuss the day's plans for their catering business at their home in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in March was 4600 kcals. He is 43 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 160 pounds.  Germans are among the biggest meat eaters in Europe, but eat slightly less meat than in decades past.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Markus Dirr, a master butcher, visits his neighbor, Hannes Ekström, a dairy farmer in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, to discuss which veal calf will next go into his sausages. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow.Germans are among the biggest meat eaters in Europe, but eat slightly less meat than in decades past.
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  • A Ganter beer sign marks Ganter Brewery's beer hall in the Muensterplatz, in the center of the old town in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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  • The Cologne Cathedral, a World Heritage Site, is illuminated against the predawn city skyline in Cologne, Germany. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz (right), a master baker and confectioner at work as a baker and pastry chef at Bastians Restaurant and bakery in Cologne, Germany. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds.
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  • Tarts topped with frozen berries at Bastian's Restaurant and Bakery in Cologne, Germany, where Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz works as a baker and pastry chef. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Breakfast at the Madsen family's home in Cap Hope village, Greenland, has a little bit of everything. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) From sandwiches to cereal, everyone helps themselves to their morning meal. Emil (in blue shirt) stands in between his daughter Belissa and nephew Julian, 10. Abraham stands to the left of Julian, and Erika sits on the couch behind. This is an especially big and varied breakfast because Emil had been on a hunting trip for a week and had just returned the night before, after collecting money in Ittoqqortoormiit, buying supplies in the store there and returning to his village on his dogsled (1.5 hours).
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  • Delayed for a day by offshore winds and cracks that threatened to push new islands of ice out to sea, seal hunter Emil Madsen (far right in black) readies his small plywood skiff on this calm, sunny day in Cap Hope village, Greenland.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen's children, Abraham, Martin and Belissa break away from watching MTV to watch dogsled teams and travelers on a skidoo hauling supplies in a sled pass by the window of their house in Cap Hope, Greenland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Erika Madsen, the seal hunter Emil Madsen's wife, begins with a long incision to clean the seal her husband shot in Cap Hope village, Greenland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After cleaning the seal, she will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Seal meat continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced the indigenous diet.
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  • Icelandic cod fishermen haul in gill nets that have been set out and left overnight near the small port of Sandgerdi on the western side of the Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although their craft is small, their large nets are mechanized. They monitor the casting then drink coffee and eat bread and fruit in the boat's galley until it's time to  haul in the bounty. They clean the fish in the belly of the ship, toss the guts, and then, after repeating this cycle many times for 8 hours, head for port. The fishermen take a fish or two home each day, along with their pay.
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera adds turmeric to dal that she cooked in a pressure cooker as she prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanas, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Munna Kailash a rickshaw driver in Varanas, India, ferries his wife, niece, and son on a shopping trip. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 106 pounds. India has about 10 million cycle rickshaws, including passenger and cargo pedal carts. Although Munna owns his rickshaw, most rickshaw pullers rent from fleet owners for about $0.60 (USD) per day. A typical puller in a big city earns about $4 to $5 (USD) per day. Although slower than two-cycle smoke-spewing auto-rickshaws, bicycle rickshaws don't pollute the air, and the only heat they add to the atmosphere is from the bodies of their drivers..
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  • Munna Kailash a rickshaw driver ferries his wife, niece, and son on a shopping trip in  in Varanas, Utta Pradesh province, India,. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches; and 106 pounds. India has about 10 million cycle rickshaws, including passenger and cargo pedal carts. Although Munna owns his rickshaw, most rickshaw pullers rent from fleet owners for about $0.60 (USD) per day. A typical puller in a big city earns about $4 to $5 (USD) per day. Although slower than two-cycle smoke-spewing auto-rickshaws, bicycle rickshaws don't pollute the air, and the only heat they add to the atmosphere is from the bodies of their drivers.
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  • Traffic swirls around a policeman at a roundabout in the busy and noisy main shopping district of Varanasi in Utta Pradesh province, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Apart from keeping his eye on rickshaws, the policeman is watching for bicycles, pedestrians, cars, and the two cows wandering down the street.
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  • Pilgrims take their turn to bath in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Thousands of pilgrims enjoy free meals of vegetarian curry and dal served by volunteers at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela, in Ujjain, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Hundreds of Nagas (naked ascetic holy men) stand on the riverbank of the Shipra River in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India just moments before plunging in for a ritual bath to mark the Kumbh Mela festival. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • Sadhus (Hindu ascetics) congregate to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • A painted pachyderm pauses for a snack of discarded cauliflower leaves and receives blessings from an admirer during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. Elephants, like cows and other animals, are shown respect throughout India, and Hindu deities are often represented in their form. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • Sweet, fried boondi, a spiced chickpea flour confection, is prepared for pilgrims in a camp at an ashram during the Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Every camp has its own large/small kitchen where food is prepared for people residing in that particular camp as well as outsiders who would walk in and out for lunch/dinner. Boondi can be a savory preparation or even sweet. A thin consistency dough is prepared using gram flour, water and spices. This boondi can be made sweet by putting in sugar syrup (prepared separately) and soaked in the syrup. Cardamom, dry fruits may be added in the syrup for flavor. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • A cow on the street near Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) A ghat is a stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
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  • Pulin Sasmal, a cook for Millie Mitra's family in Bangalore, India, prepares a meal while his daughter watches. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Hindu priest pours an offering of ghee onto a fire at the Shiva Temple, which is built into the Kid's Kemp Shopping Mall on Old Airport Road in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The 65-foot plaster statue of Lord Shiva sits in a lotus position before an amusement park-style Himalayan mountain-scape built of chicken wire and cement. This free popular attraction at the Kids Kemp shopping mall draws nearly 500,000 devotees on festival days.
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  • Shashi Kanth parks his motor scooter outside the flat he shares with his mother before leaving for his overnight job in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in December was 3000 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi, one of thousands of call center employees working in Bangalore, India, relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. Shashi's mother cooks traditional southern India food for him at home, which he loves, but when he's at work , KFC and Beijing Bites, fast food restaurants on the ground floor of the building he works in, are his dinner options.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, eats a late lunch while watching MTV  at his home before going to work in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shashi loves his mother's traditional southern Indian food at home, but when he's at work his dinner options are KFC and Beijing Bites, the fast-food restaurants on the ground floor of the high-rise where he works, located on the edge of Bangalore. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A series of domes, called gonbads, on the roof of the Amir Chakhmaq Mosque complex in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, award-winning authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at the Jameh Mosque in the city of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shoppers go about their business inside a souk (market) in the central Iranian desert city of Yazd, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on earth. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, forms dough in his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mohammad Riahi, a part time restaurant manager and taxi driver eats breakfast with his family at their home in the city of Yazd, Iran.  (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He lives with his father and mother, and will until he marries. Even then, he and his bride will be offered the second floor of his parent's home. At the restaurant he eats whatever he feels like eating. At home though, he eats what his mother puts on the tablecloth on the floor in the middle of their living room. Many of their meals are vegetable and starch-based although they have lamb or chicken occasionally, and sheep's head soup on the weekend. As Muslims, they never eat pork.
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  • Akbar Zareh reaches above the circular ovens at his bakery in the city of  Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bread bakes inside circular ovens at Akbar Zareh's bakery in the city of Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The son of a baker, Zareh began working full-time at age 10 and regrets that he didn't attend school and learn how to read and write. By working 10 hours a day, every day of the week, he has sent his four children to school so they don't have to toil as hard as he does. The product of his daily labor is something to savor?his fresh, hot loaves are as mouthwatering and tasty as any in the world. After baking in the tandoor clay ovens (at left), most of the rounds of fresh bread are dried and broken into bits.
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  • Shielded from the sun and strangers' eyes, and wrapped up against the chilly December air, a woman cloaked in a black chador wends her way through the ancient streets in the old market district of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • 15-year olds smoke water pipes (hookahs) in a tea shop overlooking Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In the distance, a view of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque)  built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, looks at Paris fashions on the Internet in her bedroom at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Two visitors standing at the  Mount of Olives, Israel, look out over the cemetery toward the gold-leafed Dome of the Rock, the most famous Islamic monument in the Old City of Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi, a Reform rabbi (center, in white shirt) leads a Shabbat service in a small portable building that is kindergarten by day and synagogue at night near his home in Tzur Hadassah, Israel. (Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of October was 3100 Kcals. He is 43 years of age; 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 165 pounds.  Tzur Hadassah, located 15 minutes southwest of Jerusalem is a communal settlement where residents lease land and houses from the state of Israel for a 99-year period.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, inspects the church's wine cellars at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dispatchers who are former bike messengers with lots of experience at T-Serv Bike Messenger service in Tokyo, Japan, talk to delivery messengers on the streets via radio from their control room. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan. Younger, smaller, and less experienced sumo wrestlers go through exercises emphasizing team unity at the end of a grueling morning practice. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Members of Miyabiyama's team enjoy a meal while sitting on tatami mats in Nagoya, Japan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya): the members of Miyabiyama's Sumo Team cook and eat together while practicing for a tournament in Nagoya.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya): the members of Miyabiyama's Sumo Team cook and eat together while practicing for a tournament in Nagoya.
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  • The heavily built torso of Masato Takeuchi, a member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) during pre-tournament  practice in Nagoya, Japan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   He is 29 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 400 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Masako Mizuhashi, a plastic food artist, eats at home during a lunch break in suburban Tokyo, Japan, with her typical day's worth of food (made of plastic) on the table. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, powers through downtown Tokyo traffic to deliver a package suspended in his shoulder bag, while also keeping an ear out for his dispatcher to assign him his next pickup location. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, makes a delivery on the busy streets of Tokyo, Japan.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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