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  • At a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa, elderly Japanese can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous places (vibrant and lively) where friends gather for foot massages, water volleyball, haircuts, or simple meals. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Stir-fried black water beetles prepared for a restaurant meal in Guangzhou, China (cold beer in background). Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Among the treats in the menu at a "longevity restaurant", an eatery claiming to serve food that will make patrons live longer, in Ogimi, Okinawa, are silver sprat fish, bitter grass with creamy tofu, daikon, seaweed, tapioca with purple potato and potato leaves, and pork cooked in the juice of tiny Okinawan limes. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 192).
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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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  • The Ayme family heads off to cultivate one of their potato fields on their small farm in the village of Tingo, near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • The Ayme family sits on the dirt floor of their kitchen and eats soup and empanadas for breakfast. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut, cleaning barley in the light from the doorway. After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Sleepy, healthful Ogimi Village, Okinawa, is home to many centenarians.
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  • At a "longevity restaurant", an eatery claiming to serve food that will make patrons live longer, in Ogimi, Okinawa, 96-year-old Matsu Taira finishes the long-life lunch with a jellied fruit dessert made from bright-red acerola berries. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 192).
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  • The Caven family in the kitchen of their home in American Canyon, California, with a week's worth of food. Craig Caven, 38, and Regan Ronayne, 42 (holding Ryan, 3), stand behind the kitchen island; in the foreground is Andrea, 5. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Çelik family in the main room of their three-room apartment in Istanbul, Turkey, with a week's worth of food. Mêhmêt Çelik, 40, stands between his wife Melahat, 33 (in black), and her mother, Habibe Fatma Kose, 51. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).In Shingkhey, a remote hillside village of a dozen homes, Nalim and Namgay's family assembles in the prayer room of their three-story rammed-earth house with one week's worth of food for their extended family of thirteen. The Namgay family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 36).
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  • Returning from the weekly market in Simiatug with most of their purchases strapped onto a borrowed horse, Orlando Ayme (35, father), leads the horse and Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo (37, mother), and Livia Rocío (15, daughter) follow. Their home in Tingo is an hour walk up the mountain. Orlando sold two sheep for $35 to buy food for his family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Patchwork fields on steep hills near Ambato, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house as one of her sons watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Cultivating potatoes on a windy afternoon, Ermelinda Ayme wraps her baby in two shawls tied in different directions. When she and her husband Orlando arrived at the field, a ten-minute walk from their home, they said a quick prayer to Pacha Mamma (Mother Earth) before working the land. Occasionally, Ermelinda has to adjust the baby's position, but generally she has no problem carrying her tiny passenger. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 117). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • Making the long return trip from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109). (MODEL IMAGE RELEASED)
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  • 90-year-old Haruko Maeda, sprawls comfortably in the front yard of her home in Ogimi Village, cutting the grass with a pair of hand shears. "I'm getting this done before it gets too hot," she explains. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen's wife Erika cleans a seal shot by her husband at their home in Cap Hope, Greenland. (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After cleaning, 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 it in the native diet.
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  • Rows of Campbell's soup cans line the shelves at Raley's, a California grocery chain. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (endpapers).
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  • The Fernandez family in the kitchen of their San Antonio, Texas home with a week's worth of food. Lawrence, 31, and wife Diana, 35, standing, and Diana's mother, Alejandrina Cepeda, 58, sitting with her grandchildren Brian, 5, and Brianna, 4. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Revis family in the kitchen of their home in suburban Raleigh, North Carolina, with a week's worth of food. Ronald Revis, and Rosemary Revis, stand behind Rosemary's sons from her first marriage, Brandon Demery, (left), and Tyrone Demery. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Sobczynscy family in the main room of their apartment in Konstancin-Jeziorna; Poland; outside Warsaw; with a week's worth of food. Marzena Sobczynska; 32; and Hubert Sobczynski; 31; stand in the rear; with Marzena's parents; Jan Boimski; 59; and Anna Boimska; 56; to their right and their daughter Klaudia; 13; on the couch. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Cabaña family in the main room of their 200-square-foot apartment in Manila, the Philippines, with a week's worth of food. Seated are Angelita Cabaña, 51, her husband, Eduardo Cabaña, 56 (holding sleeping grandson Dave, 2), and their son Charles, 20. Eduardo, Jr., 22 (called Nyok), his wife Abigail, 22, and their daughter Alexandra, 3, stand in the kitchen. Behind the flowers is the youngest son, Christian, 13 (called Ian). The Cabaña family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • The Batsuuri family in their single-room home (a sublet in a bigger apartment) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with a week's worth of food. Standing behind Regzen Batsuuri, 44 (left), and Oyuntsetseg (Oyuna) Lhakamsuren, 38, are their children, Khorloo, 17, and Batbileg, 13. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Al Haggan family and their two Nepali servants in the kitchen of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait, with one week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Matsuda family in the kitchen of their home in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, with a week's worth of food. Takeo Matsuda, 75, and his wife Keiko, 75, stand behind Takeo's mother, Kama, 100. The couple's three grown children live a few miles away. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Ukita family: Sayo Ukita, 51, and her husband, Kazuo Ukita, 53, with children Maya, 14 (holding chips) and Mio, 17 in their dining room in Kodaira City, Japan, with one week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • In the kitchen of their apartment in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, the Manzo family: Giuseppe, 31, Piera Marretta, 30, and their sons (left to right) Mauritio, 2, Pietro, 9, and Domenico, 7 stand and sit around a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Madsen family in their living room in Cap Hope village, Greenland, with a week's worth of food. Standing by the TV are Emil Madsen, 40, and Erika Madsen, 26, with their children (left to right) Martin, 9, Belissa, 6, and Abraham, 12. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Bainton family in the dining area of their living room in Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, with a week's worth of food. Left to right: Mark Bainton, 44, Deb Bainton, 45 (petting Polo the dog), and sons Josh, 14, and Tadd, 12. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Le Moine family in the living room of their apartment in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, with a week's worth of food. Michel Le Moine, 50, and Eve Le Moine, 50, stand behind their daughters, Delphine, 20 (standing), and Laetitia, 16 (holding spaghetti and Coppelius the cat). From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ahmeds' extended family in the Cairo apartment of Mamdouh Ahmed, 35 (glasses), and Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36 (brown headscarf), with a week's worth of food. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 118).
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  • The Ayme family in their kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, with one week's worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, and Orlando Ayme, 35, sit flanked by their children (left to right): Livia, 15, Natalie, 8, Moises, 11, Alvarito, 4, Jessica, 10, Orlando hijo (Junior, held by Ermelinda), 9 months, and Mauricio, 30 months. Not in photograph: Lucia, 5, who lives with her grandparents to help them out. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • Ramon Costa Allouis, 39, Sandra Raymond Mundi, 38, and their children Lisandra, 16, and Fabio, 6 in the courtyard of their extended family's home in Havana, Cuba with one week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, in their living room with a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Dong family in the living room of their one-bedroom apartment in Beijing, China, with a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Mustapha family in their courtyard in Dar es Salaam village, Chad, with a week's worth of food. Gathered around Mustapha Abdallah Ishakh, 46 (turban), and Khadidja Baradine, 42 (orange scarf), are Abdel Kerim, 14, Amna, 12 (standing), Nafissa, 6, and Halima, 18 months. Lying on a rug are (left to right) Fatna, 3, granddaughter Amna Ishakh (standing in for Abdallah, 9, who is herding), and Rawda, 5. The Mustapha family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 68).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week's worth of food. D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds her daughter Hawa, 2; the other children are (left to right) Acha, 12, Mariam, 5, Youssouf, 8, and Abdel Kerim, 16. Cooking method: wood fire. Food preservation: natural drying. Favorite food: D'jimia: soup with fresh sheep meat. The Aboubakar family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 56).
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  • The Dudo family in the kitchen/dining room of their home in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with one week's worth of food. Standing between Ensada Dudo, 32, and Rasim Dudo, 36, are their children (left to right): Ibrahim, 8, Emina, 3, and Amila, 6. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Molloy family: John, 43, Natalie, 41, Emily, 15 (called Em), and Sean, 5, in Brisbane, on Australia's east coast, with one week's worth of food, in January. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Brown family of Riverview, Australia with a week's worth of food: Doug Brown, 54, and his wife Marge, 52, with their daughter Vanessa, 32, and her children, Rhy, 12, Kayla, 15, John, 13, and Sinead, 5. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • Dummies waiting for a dressing outside a department store near the Kyoto Railway Station in Kyoto, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Here, a dead calf disintegrates in the desert sun. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Casales family in the open-air living room of their home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with a week's worth of food. Marco Antonio, 29, and Alma Casales Gutierrez, 30, stand with baby Arath, 1, between them. At the table are their older children, Emmanuel, 7, and Bryan, 5. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • 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. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Mendoza family and a servant in their courtyard in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, with a week's worth of food. Between Fortunato Pablo Mendoza, 50, and Susana Pérez Matias, 47, stand (left to right) Ignacio, 15, Cristolina, 19, and a family friend (standing in for daughter Marcelucia, 9, who ran off to play). Far right: Sandra Ramos, 11, live-in helper. Not present: Xtila, 17, and Juan, 12. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • At a nursing home near Ogimi Village, most of the community turns out to honor the birthdays of three residents, including Matsu Zakimi (left), turning 97, and Sumi Matsumoto (right), turning 88. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates?88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well-wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 195).
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  • Close up of pub lunch plate at the White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Tourist boat and dinner cruise boat passing riverside dinners.
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  • Li Shuiqi, a 26 year-old scorpion seller, and his roommate, You Zhiming, 25, eat scorpion soup. The pair of salesmen keep more than 10,000 scorpions in their apartment to raise and sell (for food and medicine) in the Qing Ping Market, Guangzhou, China. They are woody tasting. (Man Eating Bugs page 92)
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  • Bounty Hunter Restaurant and Bar, Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Cole's Chop House Restaurant, Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Zuzu Restaurant, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Zuzu serves tapas: small plates of food to accompany a drink.
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  • Fish and chips: Close up of pub lunch plate at the White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • Close up of pub lunch plate of bangers and mash.  White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • Fenella Hodson, prepares tea for guests at home in Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • English Breakfast prepared by Francis Achache at his father Philippe Achache's house on Tite St. in London, UK.
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  • Tourist dinner boat. The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas.
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  • Casa Rio Mexican Food Restaurant sign near the thee River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas.
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  • USA_030419_013_x.tif.The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Eating nachos at one of the may River Walk restaurants..
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  • The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Eating nachos at one of the may River Walk restaurants.
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  • Fish and chips: Close up of pub lunch plate at the White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • Steak and French fries: Close up of pub lunch plate at the White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • Close up of pub lunch plate at the White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • Close up of pub lunch plate of bangers and mash.  White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • Fenella Hodson, prepares tea for guests at home in Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • English Breakfast prepared by Francis Achache at his father Philippe Achache's house on Tite St. in London, UK.
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  • A robotic waiter rolls up with an order of spaghetti and clams at a Tokyo, Japan restaurant. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Muditami Munzhedzi and her family share a breakfast of mopane worm stew; the dried caterpillars are reconstituted in hot water and are then stewed with the dish's other ingredients. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 135)
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  • Dragonflies, de-winged, salted, and fried in coconut oil, with a sweet pepper garnish, over steamed rice; in a guesthouse in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (page 56 Inset.  See also page 7)
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  • An Indonesian woman holds a tray of honeycomb containing bee larvae. The honeycomb is an expensive and sought after commodity; it is boiled to release the bee larvae, which are then cooked with coconut oil, garlic, onion, chiles, lemon, fermented fish, sliced green papaya, long beans, and greens, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 63)
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  • Raw food at Bruno Comby's hotel and restaurant outside of Paris, France. Guests staying at the Chateau Montrame smell a number of fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, nuts, and insects (all raw) before eating as much of them as they feel comfortable doing. Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame. His institute serves a raw diet he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Steak and French fries: Close up of pub lunch plate at the White Horse Inn at Hascomb, UK. Lunch with Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) and photographer David Reed.
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  • A bowl of scorpion soup in Guangzhou, China made by Li Shuiqi, a 26 year-old scorpion seller, and his roommate, You Zhiming, 25. The pair of salesmen was raising more than 10,000 scorpions in their apartment to sell in markets in Guangzhou, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, with his typical day's worth of food at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (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 4,000 kcals. He is 20 years old; 6 feet, 5 inches tall; and 195 pounds. During a two-week stint before his second deployment to Iraq, he spends 12-hour shifts manning the radio communication tent (behind him). He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat). His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. ?Everybody hates that one. It's horrible,? he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village?one of 13 built for training exercises, with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • USA  The Long Haul Trucker.Conrad Tolby, an American long-distance truck driver, photographed with a typical day's worth of food on the cab hood of his semi tractor trailer at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham, Illinois. The caloric value of his meals this working weekday was 5,400 kcals. At the time of the photograph Tolby was 54 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and weighed 260 pounds. His meals on the road haven't changed much over the years?truck stop and fast-food fare, heavy on the grease?despite warnings from his doctor. He has more reason than most to watch his diet, as he's suffered two heart attacks?both in the cab of his truck. The trucker travels with his best friend and constant companion, a five-year-old shar pei dog, named Imperial Fancy Pants, who gets his own McDonald's burger and splits the fries with Conrad. From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. (Please note that the calorie total is not a daily caloric average. See his chapter, and the methodology, in the book for more information). MODEL RELEASED...Note: The authors used a typical recent day as a starting point for their interviews with 80 people in 30 countries. They specifically chose not to cover daily caloric averages, as they wanted to include some extreme examples of eating, like one woman's diet on a bingeing day or the small number of calories a herder in Kenya ate during extreme drought. The texts in the book provide the context for the photographs, detailing each person's diet, culture, and circumstance at the moment they were photographed: a snapshot in time. A complete methodology is available in the book.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (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 tall; 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.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • High school student Katherine Navas and her family eat dinner at their home in Caracas, Venezuela.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Dinner at Katherine's house is a family affair. Her mother is the chief cook, but everyone helps. Tonight's dinner is fresh fried fish from an uncle's shop. During meals, the television is turned off and the day's events are recounted by even the youngest.
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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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  • Todd Kincer, a coal miner, with his typical day's worth of food and his workday lunch box at his home in Mayking, Kentucky. (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 April was 3,200 kcals. He is 34 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 185 pounds. After showering and scrubbing off the day's coal dust, Todd gets ready to dig in to one of his favorite meals: Hamburger Helper with double noodles. A college graduate drawn to the coal mine by the relatively high pay, Todd spends a 10-hour shift mining underground, driving a low-slung electric shuttle car that carries coal from the face of the coal seam, where it's being chewed up by a deafening, dusty mining machine, to a conveyer belt. The mine, located deep inside a mountain in the Appalachians near the town of Whitesburg, Kentucky, is pitch-black, except for headlights and headlamps. During winter months, Todd never sees daylight during the workweek. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • High school student Katherine Navas and her family eat dinner at their home in Caracas, Venezuela.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Dinner at Katherine's house is a family affair. Her mother is the chief cook, but everyone helps. Tonight's dinner is fresh fried fish from an uncle's shop. During meals, the television is turned off and the day's events are recounted by even the youngest.
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  • A meal of chanko nabe prepared by sumo wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) while practicing for a wrestling tournament in Nagoya, Japan. Sumos cook and eat chanko nabe, a stew pot of vegetable and meat or fish, at nearly every meal. It  is eaten with copious amounts of rice and numerous side dishes.
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain during the afternoon staff meal. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain  during the afternoon staff meal. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Staff at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas,  on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain, during the afternoon staff meal.
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  • A vendor prepares a meal for a customer at an open air food stall in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, in front of her home with her typical day's worth of food in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, 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 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. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A meal of beans, rice and noodles in Mancapuru, Brazil
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  • Staff at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas,  on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain, during the afternoon staff meal.
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  • Aivars  Radzins, a forester and beekeeper, with his family at Sunday mid-day meal in a local restaurant in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (Aivars Radzins is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Coalminer Todd Kincer and his wife sharing a meal of Hamburger Helper at home near Whitesburg, Kentucky. (Todd Kincer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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