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  • Pisac, Peru, seen from the Inca ruins on the hill overlooking the town in the Urubamba Valley, the Sacred Valley of Incas. Sunday market is in full swing in central plaza of the town. Telephoto view of plaza with colorful market.
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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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  • 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, (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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  • Food stalls in market in mountain town of Phou Khoun, Laos.
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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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  • Food stalls in market in mountain town of Phou Khoun, Laos.
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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, 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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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • Mopane worm sellers in a South African market in Thohoyandou claim the lack of rain to be attributable for the smaller than normal supply of the insects. 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. (Man Eating Bugs page 127) .
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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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  • 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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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • Seller Prossy Kasule in stall no. 68 of the Nakasero Market offers roasted and salted grasshoppers for sale, Kampala, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Mopane worm merchants in the central market of Thohoyandou serve as the intermediaries between the worm wholesalers and individual customers. "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. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Thohoyandou, South Africa. (Page 132,133)
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  • Rosa Matíaz sells roasted and salted chapulines (grasshoppers) and live maguey worms in Oaxaca's Central Market, Oaxaca, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • A market-place vendor displays banana leaves covered with maeng man for sale, the bugs are female giant winged red ants and are eaten stir-fried, Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Man Eating Bugs page 41)
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  • Roasted bats on a stick and sticky rice in Phou Khoun, Laos.
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  • A proud Cairo fruit stand owner shows off his produce. Cairo, Egypt.
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  • A couple shows off a singing cricket in a little cage that a vendor is selling on the Bund in Shanghai, China. The crickets are pets, not food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos.
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos. Nam Song River.
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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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  • Fruit display outside a neighborhood grocery store, Paris, France.
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  • Pink plastic bags of bread on a busy street in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Produce vendor at the Ujjain municipal market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)  Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Spice seller at the Ujjain municipal market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Shoppers and sales people in the produce section of the Ujjain municipal market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Okra, tomatoes, spinach and eggplant for sale at the Ujjain municipal market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)   Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Grapes for sale at the Ujjain municipal market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • 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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  • A vegetable stand at a market in Istanbul, Turkey. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • A market vendor selling wedges of pumpkin squash on the streets of Istanbul haggles good naturedly with customers. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Vendors selling a variety of vegetables at the Divisoria market, Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Fruits and vegetables displayed at the Central Market in Riga, Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • A vendor arranges vegetables on her stall at the Central Market in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Grinning around his cigarette, a fishmonger in an Istanbul market offers a Turkish favorite: the anchovy-like fish hamsi, which can be cooked, according to a Black Sea legend, in 40 different ways. In his canvas-covered stall, the vendor moves from neighborhood market to neighborhood market, each open a different day in the week. Generally, no two neighboring markets operate on the same day?they don't want the competition. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 256). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Berries displayed at the Central Market in Riga, Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • A vendor displays garlic and carrots at the Central Market in the city if Riga, Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Pomegranates displayed at the Central Market in Riga, Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Berries displayed at the Central Market in Riga, Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Fish for sale at the Central Market in Riga, the capital of Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Apples in a stall at the Central Market in Riga, the capital of Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • A selection of a cheese and oil at the Central Market in Riga, the capital of Latvia.   Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • A woman sells fish and other seafood delicacies at the Central Market in Latvia's capital, Riga. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Established in 1201, Riga is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Meticulously clean, Japanese markets are a testament to the affluence of the island nation of Okinawa. In the Makishi market, a vendor at one typical stall offers a potential customer a free sample of daikon (giant white radish). Other choices include bitter melon, prunes, pickled baby cucumber, cabbage, rakkyo (a root in the lily family), and many other delights. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 191). This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Like most food markets in India, Ujjain's central market is a maelstrom of shoppers elbowing their way around hundreds of vendors sitting on tarpaulins with piles of produce. Cows, revered by Hindus, wander with them, though salespeople and shoppers alike push them out of the way if they get too inquisitive. The Patkar family of Ujjain, India, habituated to the tumult, move with the crowd, calmly picking out what they need. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 171). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • Kirk Finken does the weekly shopping for the family. The Finken family live in a suburban straw bale home. They live a block-and-a-half east of Lac Deschênes in the city of Gatineau*, Quebec. "At the bigger markets," says Kirk, "everything is so seductive that you end up spending more money (than you intended)". He sees it as consumer manipulation.
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  • Turkish vendors move about Istanbul from one area of the city to another to sell their wares at the street markets that are held on different days. Some wares are more popular than others, as evidenced by this seller of cheap kitchen gadgets. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED: EXCEPT FOR CHECKOUT BOY) Finishing their weekly grocery shopping expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, go through the checkout line. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. In other ways, the supermarket hews closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, 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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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.   (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jonathan Gold, a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Outside the Quiapo Market in the Philippines, people pick through the trash discarded from the early-morning wholesale market. Inside, the covered market is a tumult of activity and offers an extraordinary variety of goods, ranging from food, clothing, consumer electronics, and patent medicines to religious images and even prayers (busy people can outsource their prayers to the Quiapo Church's "prayer ladies"). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • A vendor of kitchen wares attends to customers in the old souk market in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Vendors sell fish at market in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • During an afternoon downpour, sellers help shoppers select crabs, shrimp, squid, and mackerel at a market in Daxi harbor, Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Fruits and vegetables displayed at a market in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Some of Taiwan's finest seafood delicacies are displayed at a neighborhood street market in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Fresh fish have their scales scraped off at the Sonargaon market in the town of Sonargaon outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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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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  • A vendor sells food at a market stall in the Old City, Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • A basketful of goat heads is displayed at the busy Santinagar Market in   Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A vendor displays pumpkins and squash at his market stall at the Santinagar  market in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Vegetables, grains and other farm products are displayed for sale at the Santinagar  market in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The sprawling market is a major source of income for subsistence farmers and in the surrounding areas.
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  • A vendor sells vegetables and other farm produce at the Santinagar  market in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A vendor weighs tomatoes on scales at the sprawling Sonargaon market  in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Rabbits are displayed for sale in tentmakers street and market area, Cairo, Egypt.
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  • People buy deep fried snacks from an open air market at Shari Khayyamiya, a tentmakers street and market area in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Vendors wait for customers in the busy Sonargaon market in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Lin Hui-wen, a street food vendor, with her typical day's worth of food at night market in Taipei, Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Especially busy during the days before the All Saints Day holidays, the village market of Todos Santos Cuchumatán spills out of the big, concrete municipal market and extends down side streets. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 160). This image is featured alongside the Mendoza family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • On winter days, the unheated market is cold, but the flour wholesalers, who work from trucks and sheds outside the market, are even colder. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 230). This image is featured alongside the Batsuuri family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Pig head, feet, pork chops and lard in a meat market stall of the municipal market, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • Retail public fish market near the Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Vendors make brisk business at their market stalls as shoppers pick supplies for the next day at a souk in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
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  • By 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, Kouakourou's weekly market has transformed the usually quiet shoreline of this Niger River backwater into a throng of bustling, thatch-shaded stalls and sharp-prowed traders' boats from up the river and down. Soumana goes to the market every week to buy and sell grain with his two wives, Pama and Fatoumata. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 209). 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.
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  • A vendor sells fish at the sprawling Sonargaon market in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm, shopping in the local twice weekly neighborhood market for potatos. 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 of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm, shopping in the local twice weekly neighborhood market for potatos. 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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  • 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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  • Vendors display bushels of beans for sale at a market in Sanaa, Yemen as a merchant walks by with a glass of tea.
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits at a market in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, and sells qat leaves in plastic bags.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. 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.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Vegetables on display at the sprawling Sonargaon market  in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits at a market in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, and sells qat leaves in plastic bags.  (Ahmed Ahmed Swaid is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. 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.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • People shop for vegetables at a market in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Various types of fish are displayed for sale at the LongShan night market in Teipei, Taiwan.
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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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  • Fruits at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at Khan al-Khalili souq (market) in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Papayas on display, Cuernavaca municipal market, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fruit and vegetable vendors unload produce at the dock for a busy day at the market in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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