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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife, Phurba, has milked one of the family's dris in the early morning at their tent on the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The male yaks remain free at night, grazing at higher elevations, and the dris and their calves are tethered close to the tent to make milking in the morning convenient.
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  • In the tall grass of Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, at the edge of a salt pan, a normally dry lakebed bigger than Rhode Island, a male lion looks for something to kill and eat. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets films game ranger Uahoo Uahoo at Etosha National Park in north-western Namibia. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, weighs the food items consumed by Saleh Abdul Fadlallah at Birqash Camel Market, outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps don’t store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain.
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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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  • Joey Chestnut, the world's most successful competitive eater, with 66 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and a gallon of water at Coney Island, New York City.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) This represents what Joey ate (and drank) in 12 minutes on July 4, 2007, to claim the title of world champion hot dog eater. The 66 hot dogs weighed 14.5 pounds and totaled 19,602 calories. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through 45 slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is included in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • A cheerleader pats the stomach and applies olive oil to one of the contestants in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square, where Joey Chestnut won the $5,000 first prize by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories.
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  • Conrad Tolby walks back to his truck with dinner in a bag at a truck stop at intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois.  (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lourdes' husband grills tortillas at Lourdes Alvarez's Mexican Restaurant El Coyote, in Alsip, Chicago.  (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ironworker Jeff Devine tightens bolts on an I beam at his fiftieth floor worksite in Chicago, Illinois, on highrise at 300 East Randolph St. (Jeff Devine is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ironworker Jeff Devine (at top) at work at a construction site on 300 East Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois. (Jeff Devine is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bob Sorensen, an assistant golf course superintendent of The Golf Club at Redlands Mesa in Grand Junction, Colorado moves a putting hole during an early morning inspection of the golf course. (Bob Sorensen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He played football at Mesa State College in Grand Junction and graduated with a degree in criminal justice. Just before he took a desk job in his chosen profession he decided that he didn't want a desk job and found one that requires his constant attendance of the great outdoors, at a golf course at the foot of the majestic Colorado National Monument.  He earned a second degree in turf management, supervises a small crew of greenskeepers, and coaches high school football at Palisade High School.
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  • Bob Sorensen, an assistant golf course superintendent of The Golf Club at Redlands Mesa in Grand Junction, Colorado conducts maintenance work on the golf course.  (Bob Sorensen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He played football at Mesa State College in Grand Junction and graduated with a degree in criminal justice. Just before he took a job in his chosen profession he decided that he didn't want a desk job and found one that requires his constant attendance of the great outdoors, at a golf course at the foot of the majestic Colorado National Monument. Some of his work is physical, but technology makes his irrigation chores easier. From one of many rock outcrops overlooking the lush fairways and greens in the dry, high desert valley, he can control a matrix of sprinklers with a single radio controller.  He earned a second degree in turf management, supervises a small crew of greenskeepers, and coaches high school football at Palisade High School.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet at home with his father, who is helping him get dressed, in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, soldier at Fort Irwin, California speaks to one of his counterparts. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  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. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors dressed as Iraqi men sit at a market stall in the fabricated Iraqi village if Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • John McQuiston, a head lock and dam number 1 operator on the upper Mississippi River  in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • John McQuiston, a head lock and dam number 1 operator at his home with his wife in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • At home after work, meat grinder Kelvin Lester enjoys a dinner of grilled hamburger patties with his family in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (Kelvin Lester is Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tiffany Whitehead, a student and part-time ride supervisor at the Mall of America amusement park, speaks to a colleague who controls a ride console which has malfunctioned at the mall in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Tiffany Whitehead is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner,  a retired school bus driver who weighs 500 pounds at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin and his wife show a dead fox to his mother at their farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture at Blue Hills. Pocantico Hills, New York State. Dan Barber, chef, at left puts garnishes on meat dish.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Lobsterman and fish buyer Sam Tucker leaves his home on Great Diamond Island, Maine to walk to the ferry that will take him to Portland for work. (Samuel Tucker is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Michael Rae talks about calorie restrictive diets and longevity to the audience at the Idea City Conference in Toronto, Canada. Michael is research assistant to the theoretician and biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, and they are the coauthors of the book Ending Aging. (Michael Rae 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, speaks to a colleague.  (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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  • Ferran Adrià, a chef at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain, speaks to staff and taste tests food in the restaurant's kitchen. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ferran Adrià, (at right)  a chef at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain helps another chef prepare a 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 tastes food in the kitchen while staff prepare meals. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares guides his second bull of the day as it charges past his body at full speed at the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (Oscar Higares is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After a dozen more passes, he kills the bull on his first attempt, eliciting a standing ovation from the crowd, which awards him the bull's ears and tail. Oscar and the bull spend just under 15 minutes together in the ring (an anxious period in which Oscar must control not only the objective dangers, but also his fear).   Each bullfight ends with the killing of the bull by the matador (bullfighter).  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares  guides a charging bull with his cape during the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (Oscar Higares is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After a dozen more passes, he kills the bull on his first attempt, eliciting a standing ovation from the crowd, which awards him the bull's ears and tail. Oscar and the bull spend just under 15 minutes together in the ring (an anxious period in which Oscar must control not only the objective dangers, but also his fear).  Each bullfight ends with the killing of the bull by the matador (bullfighter).MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy at the kitchen table with his family at their home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A couple walks in the rain under a yellow umbrella in Cesis, Latvia.
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  • Riccardo Casagrande, a monk brother priest, leads a morning mass at the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Hundreds of beach-goers bask in the sun at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares guides his second bull of the day as it charges past his body at full speed at the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, weighs the food items consumed by Saleh Abdul Fadlallah at Birqash Camel Market, outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Alamin Hasan (right) confronts a rival at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED..
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  • A man prays at a grave in the Muslim cemetery in the city of Tarim, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Traditional knife seller Bashir Sabana pours himself a glass of tea while smoking a cigarette at his home in Sanaa, Yemen.   (Bashir Sabana is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A vendor of kitchen wares attends to customers in the old souk market in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Fresh leaves of the much sought after qat at a house in Sanaa, Yemen. The men in the background were gathered for a Thursday afternoon qat chewing session.   Qat chewing is a favorite pastime among many Yemenis.
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  • Yemeni men relax at a qat chewing session in a private home in Sanaa, Yemen. They also smoke tobacco in a hookah, eat sweets, and drink water while they chew and talk for hours.
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  • A boy with a bag of qat leaves from  street vendors in Sanaa, Yemen in the old city souk. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • Family members and friends gather at the funeral of Trieu Thi Chat,  who died at the age of 95 in Van Phuc Village, near Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • A man grills dog meat in the Pho Nghi Tam area of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Vendors sell fish at market in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Pilgrims pour steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • An elderly man with a prayer wheel and prayer beads at a small monastery near the Jokhang, Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Buddhist monks sit inside a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Palestinian guide and driver Abdul-Baset Razem drinks coffee in his living room in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem. (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) gets his hair fixed while others clean the practice ring in preparation for a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.
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  • Vendors prepare to sell breakfast at a street corner in Shanghai, China.
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  • Huang Neng, a welder from Henan Province sits in Pudong's Lujiazui Central Green Park in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in 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 June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, which will top out at 48 floors, a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A barber talks on his mobile phone while shaving a client at a barber shop at Santinargar market in Dhakar, Bangladesh.
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  • Ruma Akhter (far left) with her neighbors outside her family home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A factory worker carries a stack of bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • A Himba woman breastfeeds a child while sitting outside her home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • A diamond polisher works on a gem in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
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  • Conflict erupts after buyers and sellers fail to agree on prices 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.)
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah negotiates with buyers while holding a camel by the tail at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds.
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  • Ansis Sauka, a voice teacher, musician, and composer, with his typical day's worth of food while rehearsing the Riga youth choir Kamer in Riga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 36 years of age; 6 feet, 0,5 inches tall;  and 183 pounds. Riga, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the oldest continuously running market in Europe, is known throughout Europe for its choral traditions. It proudly hosts the nationwide Latvian Song and Dance Festival every five years. In 2008 more than 38,000 singers, dancers, and musicians participated in the weeklong event. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sanaa, Yemen. Old City. Ahmed Swaid, qat seller, with one day's food. For Nutrtion 101 project. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Oscar Higares, bullfighter, practices in a Madrid park (with Faith D'Aluisio as the bull) before his food photo portrait in Miraflores, Spain bullring. What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. Model Released.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets with farmer Lan Guihua at her home outside Chengdu.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets dives into the  pihranha invested Solimoes River from the floating home of João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman who lives on a branch of the Solimoes River upriver from the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. MODEL RELEASED.  PJM
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets photographs rancher's wife Solange Da Silva Correia at her home  near Manacapuru, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED. PJM
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  • Freiburg, Germany. Hungry Planet exhibit in the main hall of Sparkasse savings bank.
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  • Katherine Navas, a high school student  (behind counter in shop on right), tends to a customer behind the counter of her stepfather's Internet and copy shop in Caracus, Venezuela. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Bars on all the windows, doors, and balconies signal that security is a major concern in this neighborhood. Caracas was the murder capital of the world in 2008; 50 murders in one weekend is not unheard of. Local gangs are viciously territorial and ruthless in their victimization of the hardworking, law-abiding majority. Noemi Hurtado, an 83-year-old who has lived a stone's throw from Katherine's house for the past 51 years, has never once crossed into the barrio of La Silsa. "It's too dangerous," she says. "I would never go there." When Noemi moved to western Caracas, the La Silsa barrio didn't yet exist; the hills surrounding the valley were forested and, she remembers, there were waterfalls.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela 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 day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he jogs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agustinho Cardoso at his floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agustinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rancher Francisco Da Silva Correia holds a shotgun and recounts the story of how he killed the jaguar, whose skin is on the wall, in his riverside home near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil.
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  • Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes Eating at an all you can eat seafood buffet in Newport News, Virginia, in preparation for a contest. He died at 44 in December 2008. (Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes eating at an all you can eat seafood buffet in Newport News, Virginia, in preparation for a contest. He died at 44 in December 2008. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes Eating at a an all you can eat seafood buffet in Newport News, Virginia, in preparation for a contest. He died at 44 in December 2008. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes Eating at an all you can eat seafood buffet in Newport News, Virginia, in preparation for a contest. He died at 44 in December 2008. (Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut (sitting at right), who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories.
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  • A competitive eating contestant licks his lips at the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Time Square.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through his 25th slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories. Joey is on the stage between the man in the blue cap and the man with the mohawk hairstyle.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut works his way through his 34th slice of pizza in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square. (Joey Chestnut is included in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He won the $5,000 first prize after eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes.  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories
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  • Truck driver and former biker Conrad Tolby having breakfast in a restaurant at a truck stop at the intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A waitress stands next to truck driver and former biker Conrad Tolby as he begins to eat his breakfast in a restaurant at a truck stop at the intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Conrad Tolby, a long-distance truck driver and ex-biker in the cab of his semi tractor trailer at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Conrad Tolby, a long-distance truck driver and ex-biker at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Truck driver and former biker Conrad Tolby at a truck stop at the intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gordon Stine, a farmer, with his typical day's worth of food in his family's soybean field in St. Elmo, Illinois. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,100 kcals. He is 56 years old; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 245 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Illinois farmer Gordon Stine checks a mechanical circuit breaker on a drier fan in a silo at his leased farm in St. Elmo, Illinois. MODEL RELEASED.  (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Illinois grain farmer Gordon Stine shows off signed copies of Barack Obama's books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father at his home in St. Elmo, Illinois.  (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto trains some of his students at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto trains some of his students at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver at his home in Chicago, Illinois. (Din Memon is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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