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  • A Pima Indian man getting an underwater cholesterol and body fat pertentage measurement at the NIH Indian Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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  • Pilgrims cook dough in the ash of a campfire near the Shipra River which flows through the holy city of Ujjain, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the Shipra's holy waters. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles.
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto talks on the phone while his wife prepares food at his new home in Sacaton, Arizona. (Louie Soto is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Soto built a new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community.
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto talks on the phone at his new home in Sacaton, Arizona. (Louie Soto is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Soto built a new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community.
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto with his family at his new home in Sacaton, Arizona. (Louie Soto is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Soto built a new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community.
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto showing off his tattoos at his home in Sacaton, Arizona. (Louie Soto is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 320 pounds. Soto built a new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community. MODEL RELEASED.
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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. (Shashi Kanth is featured in 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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  • The mother of Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, prepares food in the small kitchen at the home she shares with her son in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in 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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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto showing off his tattoos at his home in Sacaton, Arizona. (Louie Soto is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 320 pounds. Soto built a new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver, with his typical day's worth of food arranged on the hood of his leased cab on Devon Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 2,000 kcals. He is 59 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 240 pounds. Din came to the United States as a young man in search of freedom and opportunity and remains pleased with what he found. He has lived in Chicago for 25 years and has been driving a cab for the past two decades, five to six days a week, 10 hours a day. He knows where all of the best Indian and Pakistani restaurants are throughout Chicago, but prefers his wife's home cooking above all. His favorites? ?Kebabs, chicken tika, or biryani?spicy food,? he says. Tika is dry-roasted marinated meat, and biryani is a rice dish with meat, fish, or vegetables that is highly seasoned with saffron or turmeric. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • Food stall for the Indian / Chinese fast food dishes in the town square in Ujjain, India. Three dishes are written on the red board above - Gobi Manchurian (gobi=cauliflower), veg noodles and paneer (cottage cheese) chilli. What is currently being prepared on this mobile food cart is 'pav bhaji' Pav literally means 'bun-bread', which is what is seen on the big iron plate on the left side. 'Bhaji' is a mixture of a few different vegetables - onions, potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, eggplant, carrots, peas, etc.. Lying in the middle of the two iron plates, are bread base for pizzas. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto's children play with a pitbull at their new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • For treats, the Patkar family frequents a downtown shop that makes khova (partially caramelized condensed milk), a key ingredient in Indian sweets. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 170).
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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver in his leased taxi on Devon Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. (Din Memon is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanasi, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, 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 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests?called Sadhus?that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. Generally, he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. Offer him more food than a plateful, and he will kindly say, "no thanks."  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver at his home in Chicago, Illinois. (Din Memon is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver in his leased taxi on Devon Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. (Din Memon is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, dresses in his bedroom at home before leaving for work in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, at his workstation at the AOL call center in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Nagas (Hindu ascetics who are followers of Sadhus) congregate to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  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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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India. On the right is Sitarani Tyaagi, one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests (called Sadhus) that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. (Sitarani Tyaai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80Diets.) Generally he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds.
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  • Buckets of food prepared for worshippers at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India.
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  • Munna Kailash, a bicycle rickshaw driver, with his typical day's worth of food outside the small home that he and his wife Meera share with their children in Varanasi?in India's Uttar Pradesh province. (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. When he comes home for lunch he normally drinks a cup of tea, takes a short nap, and then heads back out into the steamy heat to find other patrons to cart from one location to the next, a job he does seven days a week.  MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Flames from a propane stove engulf a small pot of chiles in oil as rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanasi, India. (Muna Kailash is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash and his wife Meera eat lunch in their courtyard in Varanasi, India.  (Muna Kailash is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, rides his motor scooter near his home on a weekend in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Like many of the thousands of call center workers in India, he relies on fast-food meals, candy bars, and coffee to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to Westerners about various technical questions and billing problems. He took a temporary detour into the call center world to pay medical and school bills but finds himself still there after two years, not knowing when or if he will return to his professional studies.
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  • Shoppers at the Brigade Road shopping mall in Bangalore, India.
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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, a  call center worker, sits at his workstation at the AOL call center on the outskirts of Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The offices of global management, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture, in Bangalore, India.
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  • Visitors wait for their turn to enter 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, a call center worker, eats breakfast at his home in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth 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 on a day in December was 3000 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Patrons with cups of tea in their hands stand outside a popular tea and breakfast restaurant on a weekend in Bangalore, India.
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  • A street vendor sells corn near the Brigade Road shopping and commercial area in Bangalore, India
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  • Millie Mitra, an education consultant and homeopathy devotee, holds a glass of urine that she drinks everyday. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Mitra has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Millie Mitra, a vegan, who has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, drinks a glass of urine at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • Millie Mitra (center in red top) eats dinner with her family at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, with his day's worth of food in his office at the AOL call center in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. Like many of the thousands of call center workers in India, he relies on fast-food meals, candy bars, and coffee to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to Westerners about various technical questions and billing problems. He took a temporary detour into the call center world to pay medical and school bills but finds himself still there after two years, not knowing when or if he will return to his professional studies. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Millie Mitra, an education consultant and homeopathy devotee,  with her typical day's worth of food and a glass of urine at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (From the book  What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in December was 2100 kcals. She is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 1.5 inches tall; and 123 pounds.  Millie's quest for health includes yoga, a vegan diet, and topical applications of her own urine, as well as a daily glassful.  She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled ?Sivambu?), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine?200 cc in her practice?as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Prestige Lexington Towers, which house the offices of U.S. software giant Oracle Corporation in Bangalore, India.
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  • Millie Mitra (center), an education consultant and homeopathy devotee, enjoys dinner with her family at home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie's quest for health includes yoga, a vegan diet, a daily glassful and topical applications of her own urine. She has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Produce vendor at the Ujjain municipal market. (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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  • Spice seller at the Ujjain municipal market. (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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  • A market vendor in Ujjain offers a taste of his produce in hopes that the taster will buy an entire watermelon. (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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  • Jayant and Sangeeta Patkar stop at a kiosk to pick up some grocery items for their family food portrait. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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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  • Hindu pilgrims cook simple meals of fried dough balls during the Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain, India. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The courtyard of a high rise office tower that houses the call center where Shashi Kanth works in Bangalore, India.  (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A home shrine in the of house Shashi Kanth, next to their TV. Shashi Kanth is a call center worker who works at an AOL call center in Bangalore, India.  (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Millie Mitra and her yoga teacher at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie Mitra, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • Louie Soto, a carpenter's assistant and tattooist, of Pima, Tohono O'odham, Mohawk, Ottawa, and Mexican heritage, with his typical day's worth of food while dieting at his old home in Sacaton, Arizona.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in May was 2,700 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 320 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Preparing boondi in Ujjain, India, at one of the camps at the Kumbh Mela site. Every camp had 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. The man is pouring this dough through a big iron sieve which has holes in it so the dough falls in the form of drops in the hot oil and this is then fried. What comes out is the savory boondi. This boondi can be made sweet by putting in sugar syrup (prepared separately). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Preparing boondi in Ujjain, India, at one of the camps at the Kumbh Mela site. Every camp had 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. The man is pouring this dough through a big iron sieve which has holes in it so the dough falls in the form of drops in the hot oil and this is then fried. What comes out is the savory boondi. This boondi can be made sweet by putting in sugar syrup (prepared separately). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)..
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  • Ascetic sadhu holy men and other Hindu pilgrims eat a lunch of potato curry, dal, and chapatis provided by a local ashram during the Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain, India. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Cow urine elixir, popular in India, is touted as a cure-all. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Shoppers and sales people in the produce section of the Ujjain municipal market. (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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  • A drink vendor in Ujjain. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Jayant and Sangeeta Patkar shop for fresh vegetables at the Ujjain municipal market for their family food portrait. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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 Patkar family sits down to their usual vegetarian breakfast of rice flakes, chickpea-flour noodles and fresh chopped greens. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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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  • Sangeeta Patkar's maid brings condiments to the table fore breakfast. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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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  • With the aid of her daughter Neha, 19, Sangeeta Patkar prepares a vegetarian breakfast of rice flakes, chickpea-flour noodles and fresh chopped greens in her small, carefully organized kitchen. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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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  • Sangeeta Patkar's small, yet carefully organized kitchen. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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 Patkar family's vegetarian breakfast consists of rice flakes, chickpea-flour noodles and fresh chopped greens, Ujjain, India. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 245). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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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  • Ascetic sadhu holy men eat a lunch of potato curry, dal, and chapatis provided by a local ashram during the kumbh mela festival in Ujjain, India. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 244).
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  • Betel nut vendor takes a drink of water between customers in Varanasi, India. Betel nut is a mildly narcotic seed eaten with lime paste and a green leaf. Over time it decays the teeth and dyes the mouth of the user red. Although it's not considered a food, it is a plant item chewed by many all over Asia, and kept in the mouth like chewing tobacco. (From a photographic gallery of street images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Sangeeta Patkar prepares a breakfast of poha (rice flakes) in her small, carefully organized kitchen. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 173). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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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  • An hour after the Patkar family has consumed breakfast, Sangeeta's kitchen helper is outside the kitchen door, sweeping and rinsing the alley beside the house after washing the breakfast dishes. Ujjain, India. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 172). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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 Patkars shop for vegetables and fruit at Ujjain India's sprawling main market. Here they are buying okra and tomatoes. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 170). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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). The Patkar family: Jayant, 48, Sangeeta, 42, daughter Neha, 19, and son Akshay, 15 in the living room of their home in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, with one week's worth of food.  The Patkar family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 166).
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  • Two young Inca herders smile shyly at the camera before disappearing down the mountainside to tend their llamas and sheep in the high mountain passes above the city of Cuzco on the southern slopes of the Andes. (Man Eating Bugs page 150,151)
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  • Okra, tomatoes, spinach and eggplant for sale at the Ujjain municipal market. (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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  • Grapes for sale at the Ujjain municipal market. (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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  • A baker in Ujjain, India, drips milky sweet topping onto sweet fried dough to sell to passersby. He and other vendors reaps the benefits of the arrival of millions of pilgrims for the once-every-12-year occurrence of Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain for observant Hindus.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Like most food markets in India, Ujjain's central market is a maelstrom of shoppers elbowing their way around hundreds of vendors sitting on tarpaulins with piles of produce. Cows, revered by Hindus, wander with them, though salespeople and shoppers alike push them out of the way if they get too inquisitive. The Patkar family of Ujjain, India, habituated to the tumult, move with the crowd, calmly picking out what they need. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 171). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; interior, Colorado Indian home.
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  • Vista Clara, health resort & spa. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Meditating after exercise as the leader beats an Indian drum.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat.
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  • Cows lounge on the sandy shore of the Ganges River near the the Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) which is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi.  Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view.
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  • A crowd gathers before dawn on a bridge over the Shipra River which flows through the holy city of Ujjain, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the Shipras holy waters. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the Patkar family of Ujjain, India join the faithful throng in the cool of the evening and bathe in the river, too. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 169).
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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  • Southern California Coast: Malibu beach party at the home of Andrea Ross; with native Indian ceremony. Pacific Ocean.
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  • Tourists soak in mud baths at the Indian Springs Mud Baths in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • Indian on an American flag at the Saturday morning flea market in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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  • Indian woman weaving with a backstrap loom in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Hector Diaz Castellano, a Zapotec Indian farmer in El Trapiche (Oaxaca State), Mexico, checks pollination of corn plants he is growing for seed corn for the Itanoni Tortilleria.
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  • An Indian family visiting the temple at Halebid, South India. The ancient capital of the Hoysalas, Halebid was then known as Dwarasamudram. The great city of Dwarasamudra flourished as a Capital of the Hoysala Empire during the 12th & 13th centuries.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat. A man uses a long bamboo pole that once was part of the litter fashioned to carry a body to the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat to flip the unburned legs and arms back into the fire. He uses the pole to smash the skulls open as well so that it burns more easily. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • (1992) Winston Hearst, who found Anasazi Indian corn in the Spirit Cave Ruins in Utah. The 1000-year-old corn was DNA fingerprinted and later matched to a genetically similar corn from Colorado. MODEL RELEASED.
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