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  • Election eve party, Menzel/D'Aluisio house in Napa Valley, CA. Obama beats Romney.
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  • Costumed revelers at a private party during Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy, at Ca Barbarigo.
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  • Friends and family celebrate Josh Bainton's 14th birthday party (he's at center) on Saturday night at The Crown, the neighborhood pub. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Bainton family of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, England, 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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  • Election eve party, Menzel/D'Aluisio house in Napa Valley, CA. Obama beats Romney.
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  • Election eve party, Menzel/D'Aluisio house in Napa Valley, CA. Obama beats Romney.
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  • Election eve party, Menzel/D'Aluisio house in Napa Valley, CA. Obama beats Romney.
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  • New Year's Eve party in cave at Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • New Year's Eve party in cave at Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • New Year's Eve party in cave at Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Pablo Corral Vega with a platter of roasted cui (guinea pigs) and a bottle of wine at a party at his farm house in Ecuador.
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  • A cook showing roasted cui (guinea pigs) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Dinner party at Thordis' house in Reykjavik, Iceland with Rudy Maxa and lots of other writers and editors for a travel conference.
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  • At a dinner party at the Reykjavik, Iceland, home of Thordis (with plate at right), Keith Bellows yaks it up with guests. On left is Keith's wife Melina, standing is Annie Griffiths-Belt, and seated center is Linnea Cahill, Tim Cahill's wife..
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  • Young girls at a wedding party at the Talar Yazd Restaurant, Yazd, Iran. Traditionally females and males at Muslim weddings celebrate the wedding separately. Photo taken in the women's section of the wedding part by Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Iris (Sandra's niece), who has just celebrated her Quinceañera, the traditional coming-of-age party for girls, compares her photos with her mother's quinceañera photos at the kitchen table of their Havana, Cuba home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After sunset, Sandra Raymond Mundi's niece Iris celebrates her Quinceañera, the traditional coming-of-age party for girls. Here flanked by her mother and father (recently divorced) she is about to cut her cake in front of a hundred friends and relatives. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Friends and family celebrate Josh Bainton's 14th birthday party on Saturday night at The Crown, the neighborhood pub. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 143). /// The Bainton family of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, England, 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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  • Iris Garcia Costa is toasted during her Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday, by her friends and parents (Montecristi Garcia, center left, and Eulina Costa, center right. The Quinceañera is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • New Year's Eve party in cave at Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Costumed revelers at a private party during Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy, at Ca Barbarigo.
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  • Festival participants who have been up all night partying gather at café shortly after dawn. Visa pour l'image International festival of photojournalism, held in Perpignan, France..
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  • Saint John's Night on the beach at Playa Malvarrosa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Lake Tahoe, CA. Fundraising farm-to-table dinner catered by local chefs at a private home for the Squaw Valley Institute. Lecture by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio followed the dinner.
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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • Rafting on the Truckee River downstream from Lake Tahoe, CA
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • State Farm Insurance Balloon. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • A dinner table is set in the desert at Burning Man in the late afternoon. Later that evening, 8 celebrants have dinner, and then burn the table. A group of San Francisco friends brought a table and chairs from a yard sale, had dinner in the desert near the Burning Man, then burned the dining set Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Slow Food celebration at Ft. Mason, San Francisco
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  • The owners of the winery Granja Nuestra Senora de Remelluri, S.A. at home, having supper in their kitchen. Rioja, Spain.
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  • The Baintons celebrate Deb's mother's seventieth birthday. Enjoying some ice cream and pie is Deb's mother, Val, standing with her grandsons, Josh and Tadd, to her right and Deb to her left. Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Bainton family of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, England, 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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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
    USA_120819_051_x.jpg
  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
    USA_120819_042_x.jpg
  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
    USA_120819_034_x.jpg
  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
    USA_120819_028_x.jpg
  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass ascension on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass ascension on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Rafting on the Truckee River downstream from Lake Tahoe, CA
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  • Revelers at the Harvest Festival dinner at V. Sattui Winery, in St. Helena, Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dinner at Rob and Maria Sinsky's home in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Lively weekend family lunches at the Jewel-like Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Safiya Carter-Thompson, 12, and two friends, Josh Olson and Alex Baker-Lubin, both 11, at an insect cooking lesson put on by entomologist Leslie Saul of the San Francisco Insect Zoo and her husband Norman Gershenz. On the menu: chocolate-chip mealworm cookies and cricket frittata. Berkeley, California, United States. (Man Eating Bugs page 184)
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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
    USA_120819_014_x.jpg
  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
    USA_120818_140_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Barraca Bar night club, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Costumed revelers, a nun in drag and a clown, at Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for a portrait with her parents Montecristi Garcia and Eulina Costa at her fifteenth birthday party. The Quinceañera, is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa and her mother Eulina Costa Allouis, compare their respective photos from their traditional 15th birthday parties; a special coming-of-age party for young women called a Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday.
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  • Austin Richards of Santa Barbara, CA, is zapped by his homemade Tesla Coil. Richards wears a homemade robot outfit with a birdcage covering his head. The electrical "lightning" bolts his Tesla coil zaps him with do not do any harm because he is surrounded by metal that acts a Faraday cage, harmlessly channeling the charges to the ground and protecting his body from shocks. Richards performs these stunts for trade shows and parties. Here he is doing this for a block party near Santa Barbara. California, USA
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  • Austin Richards of Santa Barbara, CA, is zapped by his homemade Tesla Coil. Richards wears a homemade robot outfit with a birdcage covering his head. The electrical "lightning" bolts his Tesla coil zaps him with do not do any harm because he is surrounded by metal that acts a Faraday cage, harmlessly channeling the charges to the ground and protecting his body from shocks. Richards performs these stunts for trade shows and parties. Here he is doing this for a block party near Santa Barbara. California, USA
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for photographs at La Maison?a location often used in Cuba for a girls' Quinceañera, the traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party. Revisit of Material World project 2001.
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab. Early morning party in Soviet dorm with Americans and Soviets. (1987]
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  • Vic Cherikoff of Sydney, Australia, is owner of Bush Tucker Supply Party Ltd. and a supplier of native foods to Australian restaurants, stores, and on the Internet. He is the creator of a recipe for witchetty grub dip over wattleseed pancakes. (pages 26-27. See also page 22)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Friends gather for a dinner party with en croute in an apartment in Paris, France. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • The initial lighting of the Burning Man begins with fireworks during the last all-night party. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Southern California Coast: Malibu beach party at the home of Andrea Ross; with native Indian ceremony. Pacific Ocean.
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  • Irrigation: Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico. Halophyte SOS-7. First Harvest Party. Grain irrigated with salt water. A halophyte is a  plant capable of living under salty conditions (University of Arizona project in conjunction with Biosphere 2.). USA.
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  • A local Ecuador photographer talks with Carol Guzy (right) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Wedding party by Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow, Russia.
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  • Muna Ali, at center, a Somali student living in Scarboro, Ontario, Canada attends a party at a housing project in East Scarboro, near her house.
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  • Muna Ali, at left, a Somali student living in Scarboro, Ontario, Canada attends a party at a housing project in East Scarboro.
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  • After sunset, Sandra Raymond Mundi's niece Iris celebrates her Quinceañera, the traditional coming-of-age party for girls. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 101).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Looking forward to the night's party, Sandra Raymond Mundi sorts through rice, looking for debris before making congrí. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 100).
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  • Coco Simone Finken (called Coco), 16, at her small birthday party celebration (dinner followed by birthday cake), with her family: her sister and parents, in their suburban straw bale home. They live a block-and-a-half east of Lac Deschênes in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. 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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  • Rouladen (a traditional German entree) is a favorite meat dish of the Melander family (served with potatoes, carrots, and peas at a dinner party for friends). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Serving potatoes, vegetables and rouladen (a traditional German entree) at a dinner party in the Melander's dining room. Rouladen is a favorite meat dish of the family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Beef en Croute, Paris, France served at a dinner party. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The morning that the family broke the news to Pai that she was to marry her cousin, Baba, they all had breakfast together in the courtyard of Soumana's house. According to custom, the couple then spent the day apart, Pai weeping openly over the loss of her childhood. The next day at the wedding party, Pai's mother Pama was dry-eyed while Fatoumata wept. She said that Pai had always been there to help with the babies and that she would be missed. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 213). 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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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists, and some tourists. They then return to their temples (also known as wats) and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. Because Laos has a Communist government, many people fly both Laotian flags and Communist party flags outside their homes.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses at one of the myriad locations a photographer takes her for her fifteenth birthday photo shoot. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa steals a nap after her fifteenth birthday photo shoot in various locations around Old Havana. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party and whirlwind of activities for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Teens at a party play cards. Santiago, Chile.
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  • Meat grilling at a birthday party at a house in the 12 de Octubre barrio in Caracas, Venezuela.
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