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  • Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). Rather than shop in one store for all items, she shops in a green market, a general merchandise store (pictured) and a fish market. Kodaira City, Tokyo, Japan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • Bridal shop window, downtown Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • Brawn's florist shop in Westport, West Ireland, brightly painted in yellow and purple.
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  • Two women outside a clothing shop on market day in Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Customers use their laptops for email and talk on cellphones at Cilantro, a coffee and internet shop in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Antique dealer and son in front of his shop in Seville, Spain.
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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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  • Antique shop. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • Vesterbro district porn shop. Vesterbro is the red light district of Copenhagen. Denmark.
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  • Lao Textile Natural Dye shop and workshop in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Chocolate shop Santa Clara in the Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Cheese in a cheese shop in Pienza, Italy. (between Rome and Florence, near Montepulciano).
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  • Sheep heads in a butcher shop window in the old city, Yazd, Iran. Sheep heads are cooked into soup and eaten regularly, often on the weekends.
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  • A cook dishes up steaming noodles in a streetside shop in Kunming, China.
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  • Marcus Dirr (left), a master butcher, makes sausages at his shop in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, while his father Peter Dirr, a chief butcher, operates the controls of a mixer. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in March was 4600 kcals. He is 43 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 160 pounds. The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Sayo Ukia (back to camera) shops for fruits and vegetables in the Kodaira City neighborhood, outside Tokyo, Japan, where she and her family live. Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45, shopping for weekly groceries. Model-Released.
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  • A shopping mall in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Material World Project.
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  • Natalie Molloy at the grocery store checkout counter as she is shopping for her family's upcoming photo shoot. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Natalie Molloy of Brisbane, Australia, puts a lot of thought, and ingredients, into her dinner salads, though not a lot of dressing. Shopping for the evening's meal, she buys English spinach, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, avocado, mung beans, capsicum (peppers), snap peas, and corn; though decides against the iceberg lettuce in her hand. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 35).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). While the Browns of Riverview, Australia are used to living with a nearly-empty refrigerator in their rented home in Riverview, Australia (near Brisbane) they look forward to the days when it's full. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. Here, Vanessa and John walk ahead with the shopping cart, while Marge and Sinead follow close behind. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Shopping for the week's worth of food in the family portrait, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang buy chicken, lamb, and pork at the Luckybird Meat Store No. E0001 in the market town nearest their small village of Weitaiwu, which is located in the Beijing Province of China. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 86). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Li Jinxian always likes to buy fruit from the same vendor, a woman whom she has built a rapport with over time. This week her husband, Cui Haiwang, has come shopping with her; usually he's away working in Beijing. Both husband and wife are discriminating fruit and vegetable shoppers. Sniffing and pinching each item before deciding on a purchase is standard operating procedure. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 85). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). 5-year old Sinead Brown shows off the Barbie video that she wants to rent during a family grocery shopping trip near their home in Riverview, Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Stephan Shambach, 27, President and C.E.O. of Intershop Communications, a company that develops software for Internet shopping sites. San Francisco. Model Released (1999).
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  • Mariel Booth at Starbucks in New York City. (Mariel Booth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Myron's Meats at the housewives market in Oakland, California. USA.
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  • Gundlach Bundschu Winery, Sonoma, CA
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Main St. Flushing, Queens, New York. USA..
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  • Gundlach Bundschu Winery, Sonoma, CA
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • While the Browns of Riverview, Australia are used to living with a nearly-empty refrigerator, they look forward to the days when it's full. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. John tends to the bags while Marge and Vanessa continue to load groceries for checkout. This trip, the Browns were also preparing for their upcoming photo shoot. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs (Mr. Dong at right) of Beijing, China, inspect fresh meat at the butcher counter. In other ways too, 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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  • General store in Trongsa, Bumthang Valley, Bhutan. (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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  • A vendor makes a sale of dried and ground up chili peppers at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan.. (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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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • San Telmo
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Weavers at Ban Pha Nom, near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Meat Market, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Krakow, Poland.
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  • A boutique shoe store in Reykjavik, Iceland, with a salesperson standing by.
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  • Vendors sell vegetables and fruit outside a marketplace pub in Narok, Kenya.
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  • Buyers wait for their meat purchases in the Agromercado open agricultural market. A sign of the government's willingness to experiment with modest levels of free enterprise in the 1990s, the markets may not exist for much longer. In 2004 and 2005, Castro reined back the number of farmers allowed to work for themselves, stopped issuing many types of licenses for self-employment, and eliminated all traffic in U.S. dollars. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 103).
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  • With Sandra Raymond Mundi carefully watching, a vendor measures out cornmeal mush in the Agromercado 19 y 78 open market in Havana's Marianao district. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 102).
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  • Much Australian food is similar to the foods found in Europe or the U.S. But some are distinctly Australian, including, notoriously, the yeast-extract spreads shown here. The most famous of these is Vegemite, bought by Kraft from its Australian creators. Other brands include the locally manufactured Mightymite and Promite (a sweeter version). Some Australians still hold out for Marmite, the British original. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 34).  This image is featured alongside the Molloy family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). While the Brown family of Riverview, Australia are used to living with a nearly-empty refrigerator, they look forward to the days when it's full. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. Here, Marge and Doug decide on a salad dressing. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). While the Brown family of Riverview, Australia are used to living with a nearly-empty refrigerator, they look forward to the days when it's full?every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. Here, Vanessa looks on as John goes to get a box of cereal.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Browns return from the grocery store to their modest neighborhood in Riverview, outside of Brisbane, Australia. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 26).
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  • China's women who hail from the cultural minorities buy and sell in the Menghan Sunday Market in Xishuangbanna, near the Burma border. China is green and leafy in the spring with cucumbers, squash, green onions, long beans, leeks, and bok choy..(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Visiting a fruit vendor in another nearby town, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang watch as a watermelon they are buying is weighed. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Visiting a fruit vendor in another nearby town, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang sniff the plums to find the ripest, sweetest fruit. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 86). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Dong family, of Beijing, China, haul their groceries up the stairwell to their newly redecorated fourth-floor flat. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 81). 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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  • Nalim (in green jacket) talks to her daughter Bangum about prices before buying dried chili peppers from the vendors who line the wall at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan. The large town is a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. Nalim and her children and grandchildren walk there and back unless they can hitch a ride on a passing vehicle. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Napa Valley supermarket
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Guangzhou, China. Xing Ping Market on a rainy day. (Xing Ping Market is now closed)
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  • Australia's population is concentrated on the coasts, which means that seafood is a major part of most people's diets; especially shrimp and spiny lobster (shown here being harvested off Cape Otway, near Melbourne). The Molloys, of Brisbane, Australia, are an exception. Although John and Sean love seafood, Em is skeptical and Natalie can't abide it. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 32).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Natalie Molloy rides down the shopping-cart-friendly escalator to her car in the shaded parking garage after she has finished buying a week's worth of groceries at a Woolworth's supermarket. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). While the Brown family of Riverview, Australia are used to living with a nearly-empty refrigerator, they look forward to the days when it's full. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 26).
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  • Sunday is the big market day in Menghan, China. Menghan is near Jinhong, on the border with Burma. (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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  • Outside the Luckybird meat market in a nearby town, Li Jinxian (in yellow shirt) selects eggs to buy. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs (at left) of Beijing, China, inspect fish and sushi rolls. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. (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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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, inspect a tray of live crabs. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). 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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  • Meat is cut and sold at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan, a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. (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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  • Fish, chilies, ginger, onions, tomatoes and cabbages are among the foods available in a marketplace in Jakar, Bumthang Bhutan. Some of the produce is grown locally and some, like oranges, is trucked from India. A rocklike hard white cheese sold by the piece and a specialty of this area of Bhutan must be chewed for hours before it dissolves.(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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  • Young market vendor weighs potatoes for a customer at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan, a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. (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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  • Vegetable stall in the market at Jakar, Bhutan. Hard cheese, a specialty of the area, hangs from strings above the fruits, vegetables and dried fish for sale. (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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  • San Telmo
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Nasrullah Qureshi, 51, after buying meat, emerging from an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries. Model-Released.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Bitter gourd health drink stand.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Boat trip back from the Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, 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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  • 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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  • Books and souvenirs for sale at Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, kneeling, choosing fruit in an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries.
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  • Old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Bitter gourd health drink stand.
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  • Seattle, WA. University of Washington.
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  • Pawnshop called The Happy Hocker in Palmdale, Mojave Desert, California, USA.
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