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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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  • The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut in the village of Tingo, in the central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.
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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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). 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.
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  • Combatant playing war peers out a window with his paintball gun ready to fire at the Sat Cong Village paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A sick, starving man in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. South of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal and his wife Phurba eat inside their handmade yak wool tent home in the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cape Neddick, Maine light house.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; interior, Colorado Indian home.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agustinho Cardoso floating home on the Salimoes River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agustinho Cardoso is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Breakfast-time at the riverside home of Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares her family's fish dinner by the light of an oil lamp at the kitchen window of their riverside farmhouse near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  With no indoor plumbing, she tackles anything messy on an overhanging counter, letting chickens and dogs clean up the scraps below.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Elephant Village near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Chomphet District across the Mekong River from Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Port Lockroy, Antarctic Treaty Historic Site No. 61, British Base A. Home to a small Gentoo penguin colony. Antarctica.
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  • River's sweat lodge, with hot rocks, steam, beating drum. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri (left, gasping for breath) for Actuel Magazine, France. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Pouring water over hot rocks to create steam at River's sweat lodge. Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine?France. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..MODEL RELEASED.
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  • River's sweat lodge, with hot rocks, steam, beating drum. New Age. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sat Cong Village war games paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. A player who was shot surrenders.
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  • Boys playing baseball in front of their thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • A family in front of their thatched roof home in a Mayan village, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • City Center, Luxembourg.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares a meal inside her riverside home near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil while her grandchildren play with a turtle that they will eat for a special meal.    (Solange Da Silva Correira is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.
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  • Breakfast before a school day at the riverside home of Solange and Francisco da Silva Correia near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Kibet Serem and his sister-in-law Emily strain the milk from the family's five cows in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva's floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • 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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  • Clothes drying in the sun on a hillside near a family compound near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. Family members: Soumana Natomo, 46, sits flanked by his two wives, Fatoumata Toure, 33 and Pama Kondo, 35. Soumana and Fatoumata's children are daughter Tena, 4 months, daughter Fourou, 12, son Kansy, 4, and son and daughter Mama, 8, and Fatoumata, 10. Soumana and Pama's children are son Mamadou, 10, son Mama, 13, and son and daughter Kantie, 16, and Pai, 18. To Pama's left is Kadia Foune, 33, Soumana's sister-in-law, with her children Kantie, 1, and Mariyam, 8. The Natomo family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 206).
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  • Day after Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • Bamboo bridge across the Nam Khan River, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • Artemio Martinez family getting ready for breakfast in their simple house near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • Sunset on the beach on  Ambergris Cay, Belize.  Central America.
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  • Solange and Francisco Da Silva Correia's grandchildren leave their grandparents' riverside home for school near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil.  (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   They  use one of the family's outboard canoes to get to school in the nearby town of Caviana in Amazonia, Brazil, 20 minutes downriver.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua carries a bucket of milk at her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Soumana Natomo (far left, in blue) walks into the village market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book 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, like the one pictured here, are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Thatched hut settlement with gardens in the central highlands of the South Baliem Valley, near Kurima, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Typical round homes in Ha-Matiyane Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • Near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Park commemorating the Battle of Crysler's Farm in 1813 during the Anglo American War of 1812.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • The beach and hotels at Cancun, Mexico.
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  • A typical roundhouse in Mingha Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • Smoke from cookfires wafts up into the sky at dawn in Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sunrise ushers in another day of waiting. It's November, two months after the rainy season, but  temperatures are still low. Women sweep the dirt in front of their tents while children walk to the water depot with empty plastic containers as roosters crow and donkeys bray into the desert air, which is beginning to lose its nighttime chill.
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Traditional houses near Karima in the central highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Woman winnowing grain in a village outside of Mopti, Mali near the Niger River. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Late afternoon laundry shadows play on the courtyard of a typical family compound in the village of Masetoni in Venda, in the far northeast of South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 122,123)
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  • Ermelinda's children enjoy soup and empanadas for breakfast in an earthen hut in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The family of eight consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out.
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, roasts nuts over a low fire in the cooking hut, in preparation for a White Sunday feast at the Lagavale home in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba boys and girls sit in a hut made of wood and earth in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.
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  • A mopane worm in a tree outside the hut of Himba tribespeople in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. Mopane worms are also a delicacy during the rainy season.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut in Tingo, Ecuador, 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).
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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 in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114). After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge.   Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia, sits in her hut with her son. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Margarita, a Yanomami who maintains a dedication to the traditions and heritage of her people in the face of increased Western influence, sits in her hut in a hammock, cooking yams over a wood fire. She is in the midst of a village in which many have assumed the traditions of Western visitors who ironically came to study the uninfluenced Yanomami peoples. Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 170,171)
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