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  • Alvarito Ayme, 4, casts a beseeching look at his mother, Ermalinda, who is buying grain and flour from the local indigenous coop in Simiatug, Ecuador in the hope that she will buy him a sweet from the display counter. His father, Orlando, sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. Supporting Image from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • A policeman examines a bag of at qat before buying from a vendor at the qat market in souk of BinAifan, Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), bargains with a vendor of flour and beans before he buys some. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), buys a big sack of rice from a  vendor in a truck. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. His wife Ermalinda and youngest son watch. He bought "broken" rice because it is cheaper than the whole grain rice. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho, center), sizes up a vendor of oranges before he buys some. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), buys some oranges and other fruit from a vendor in the weekly market in Simiatug (his wife, Ermalinda is by his side, also with red poncho). He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), pays for some flour he bought from a vendor in the weekly market in Simiatug (his wife, Ermalinda is by his side on the right, also with red poncho. His youngest son is on his wife's back and Alvarito, 4 is in the blue sweater eating an orange.) He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. ((Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, sells two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of  Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. (He is not visible in this photo of the crowd.) (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The weekly market in Simiatug Ecuador spreads through the streets of the small mountain town. Orlando Ayme sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Shoppers buy eggs from a street vendor in winter in Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, sells two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of  Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. (He is not visible in this photo of the crowd.) (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Venders selling cremation supplies line the many narrow alleys leading to Manikarnika Ghat and Jalasi Ghat. People pass through at all times of the day and night and the cremation site never closes. Colorful shrouds in auspicious colors are sold by the piece. The color red denotes prosperity and hope. Yellow is the color of innocence. The largely polyester fabric doesn't burn very well so is often set aside and burned separately so that it doesn't impede the process of burning the body. The workers hoeing the ashes picks up remnants and wind them around their heads as decoration.
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  • Crowded street in the market section of Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Guy Kawasaki pitches his ideas for garage.com to Tim Draper & Steve Jurvetson. Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are partners in Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, one of the leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. (1999).
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  • Astrid Holmann and her son Lenard in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Aldi supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann and her son Lenard in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Aldi supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann and her son Lenard (not in photo) in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Aldi supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann's daughter Lillith in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Penny supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann and her daughter Lillith in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Penny supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann and her son Lenard (not in photo) in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Aldi supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann and her son Lenard in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Aldi supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann and her son Lenard in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Aldi supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann and her daughter Lillith in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Penny supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann's daughter Lillith in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Penny supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Toy World store at GUMs Department Store in Red Square, Moscow, USSR. 1987.
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Dong Xuan Market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Dong Xuan Market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Village near the international Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam. Market across from Avi Airport Hotel.
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  • Chinatown, London, UK
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market for tourists in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Meat Market, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Thursday Market in the Plaza Del Raso, Calahorra. Calahorra is the major town in the Baja region of La Rioja. The Romans had a great presence here in ancient times and this is the birthplace of both the great Roman scholar Quintilian (A.D 35-100) and the poet Prudentius. .La Rioja, Calahorra, Spain.
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  • Thursday Market in the Plaza Del Raso, Calahorra. Calahorra is the major town in the Baja region of La Rioja. The Romans had a great presence here in ancient times and this is the birthplace of both the great Roman scholar Quintilian (A.D 35-100) and the poet Prudentius. .La Rioja, Calahorra, Spain.
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  • Stock Exchange.  Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Warsaw stock exchange trader. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • A proud Cairo fruit stand owner shows off his produce. Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Books and souvenirs for sale at Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Dong Xuan Market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Weavers at Ban Pha Nom, near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Wat Aham Buddhist Temple in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Orlando Ayme shows off one of his sheep which has 4 horns, which he thinks is hilarious. Orlando and his sons and a neighbor are returning from cultivating their potato field. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • Fish vendor in the Mercado del Ninot, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Stock Exchange.  Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Camel auction at the livestock market (main source of income). Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, (the Breakaway Republic of Somalia).
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  • Pink plastic bags of bread on a busy street in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Qat sellers wait for customers after dark on a street in Sanaa, Yemen. Qat chewing is a popular pastime in Yemen.
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  • A sea of camels at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in 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.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • All manner of goods can be found in the bazaars of Iran but this is also a meeting place for local residents. Women in black chador (tent) converse in the warren-like covered Yazd Bazaar. Yazd, Iran.
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  • Qat sellers make transactions and count money from their day's sales at a qat market near Rock Palace, near Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Krakow, Poland summer fruit in market.
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  • Customers wait for their orders at Marcus Dirr's stall at a bi-weekly market while children play, in the Wiehre Residential District of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Marcus Dirr is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Germans are among the biggest meat eaters in Europe, but eat slightly less meat than in decades past.
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  • Vendors sell vegetables and fruit outside a marketplace pub in Narok, Kenya.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Nasrullah Qureshi, 51, after buying meat, emerging from an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries. Model-Released.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, choosing cereal in a supermarket in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries. Model-Released.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, kneeling, choosing fruit in an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries.
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  • The fresh meat section of the weekly market in Hargesia, the capital of Somaliland. Despite the chronically chaotic political situation, people still try to go about their ordinary lives whenever they can, in this case buying and selling beef, mutton, and camel meat. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 17). Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Shopping for the week's worth of food at a big supermarket in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Alma Casales marches to the cash register, chomping on an apple and laughing at the absurdity of buying so much bread at once. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 222).
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  • Sealift room (food storage room). One perk that the Melansons can take advantage of that isn't available to everyone in Nunavut is the sealift: bulk buying of staple foods to bring down the high price of food to this remote area. It comes in via ship from Canada's southern provinces. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast at the Madsen family's home has a little bit of everything. 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 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). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Natalie Molloy rides down the shopping-cart-friendly escalator to her car in the shaded parking garage after she has finished buying a week's worth of groceries at a Woolworth's supermarket. (Supporting image from the project 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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  • Visiting a fruit vendor in another nearby town, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang watch as a watermelon they are buying is weighed. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, 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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  • Nalim (in green jacket) talks to her daughter Bangum about prices before buying dried chili peppers from the vendors who line the wall at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan. The large town is a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. Nalim and her children and grandchildren walk there and back unless they can hitch a ride on a passing vehicle. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • Vientiane, Laos. Boy buying cotton cany in the park with exercise equipment on the banks of the Mekong River on Fa Ngum Road.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, paying for fresh produce in an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries.
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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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Loaded down with groceries for the family portrait, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang are met by Grandfather Cui with his sanlun che (three-wheeled cart) at the entrance to the narrow lane leading to their home. The Cui family (indeed, most rural Chinese) would never buy this quantity of food at one time, but would buy smaller quantities every day. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 87). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, 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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  • A few blocks away from the Cabañas' home in the Malate shopping area, Angelita Cabaña, buys a week's worth of rice for the photo shoot. Fortified storefronts are not unusual: most small sari-saris (variety/convenience shops, often just a window on the street) have similar rails, or bars, for security. Angelita's purchase is unusual: most people in this working-class area buy smaller amounts, handing in their money then getting their rice beneath the bars. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 238).
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  • As suggested by this streetscape in Old Havana (the old city harbor) vintage vehicles are a regular mode of transportation throughout Cuba. Since 1962, the U.S. trade blockade has effectively prevented any new cars from arriving. But even though a few auto dealers in Europe and Russia are willing to defy the blockade and the attendant U.S. sanctions, not many Cubans have the money to buy new vehicles. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 99).
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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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  • The Ayme family on their way to the weekly market in Simiatug, Ecuador walk down this road from their village of Tingo, high above the town of Siamatug. They are taking two sheep to sell so they can buy rice, potatoes and other vegetables since their own potato crop is not ready to harvest. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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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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  • 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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  • One of Shahnaz Hossain Begum's neighbors with her children in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.  (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Shahnaz, a mother of four, got her first micro loan several years ago, from the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income.
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  • The children of one of Shahnaz Hossain Begum's neighbors at their home in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.   (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Shahnaz got her first micro loan several years ago, from BRAC, Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She repaid her initial loan and has since gotten new ones over the years along with thousands of her fellow Bangladeshis. This mother of four was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her tenants share a companionable outdoor cooking space and all largely cook traditional Bangladeshi foods such as dahl, ruti (also spelled roti), and vegetable curries. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income.
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  • One of Shahnaz Hossain Begum's neighbors with her child in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.   (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shahnaz, a mother of four, got her first micro loan several years ago, from the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sudanese refugees enjoy a meal  to mark the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. Some of the families in the refugee camp celebrate the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughter and share. Men eat apart from women.
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  • Nguy?n V?n Theo, a rice farmer, in his courtyard in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam, with his typical day's worth of food. (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 December was 2500 kcals. He is 51 years of age; 5 feet, 4 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Behind him is a pile of last year's rice straw, used for fuel to boil water in the family's small kitchen. Rainwater from the tile roof of the main house fills a cement cistern, providing water for drinking and cooking. Theo enjoys the relative tranquility of village life, compared to his wife's busy routine of selling fresh produce on the sidewalks of Hanoi. Floods ruined his rice crop a few months ago, so after last year's store of rice is eaten, the family will rely on his wife's income to buy this staple grain until he harvests the next crop. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia, a rancher's wife, with family members in their house overlooking the Solimoes River, with her typical day's worth of food. (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.  She and her husband, Francisco (sitting behind her, at right), live outside the village of Caviana with three of their four grandchildren in a house built by his grandfather. They raise cattle to earn income?and sometimes a sheep or two to eat themselves?but generally they rely on their daily catch of fish, and eggs from their chickens, for animal protein. They harvest fruit and Brazil nuts on their property and buy rice, pasta, and cornmeal from a store in Caviana. They also purchase Solange's favorite soft drink made from guarana?a highly caffeinated berry indigenous to the country.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Woodside, T.J. Rodgers, president & CEO of Cypress Semi Conductors, at home in his new multi-million dollar Woodside home. Rodgers is President and C.E.O. of Cypress Semiconductor. Outspoken, right-wing, once called the "meanest boss in America" by a magazine. Rodgers is a fervent football fan of the Green Bay Packers?he has an autographed helmet from quarterback Bart Star and is seen here sitting on his couch with his dog, both wearing plastic "cheese heads"-- symbols of team loyalty. Rodgers suggested this photo saying that if it is published, he would probably be able to more easily buy season tickets to Green Bay Packers games (Wisconsin). Model Released (1999).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Diana Fernandez follows her daughter Brianna into their house in San Antonio, Texas, after the family has been to buy food from Whataburger. Already at the door is Diana's mother Alejandrina Cepeda. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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