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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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  • Lourdes Alvarez grills tortillas at her Mexican Restaurant, El Coyote in the suburb of Alsip, Chicago Illinois. (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alma Casales' says her week-size order (for the upcoming photo shoot) of tortillas at the tortillería across the street from her convenience store in Cuernavaca, Mexico is a bit irrational; she never buys tortillas in bulk, because they don't keep well. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 223).
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  • Pima farmer Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo and his youngest son, Favien, mop up their breakfast bowls of fried pinto beans with pieces of tortillas made by his wife Estella at their home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez prepares tacos at her Mexican Restaurant, El Coyote, in the suburb of Alsip, Chicago.  (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez prepares tacos at her Mexican Restaurant, El Coyote in the suburb of Alsip, Chicago.  (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez prepares tacos at her Mexican Restaurant, El Coyote, in the suburb of Alsip, Chicago. (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • José Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a rancher of Pima heritage, having a meal with his wife and sons at their home in the Sierra Mountains, near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo eats breakfast with his two youngest sons at his ranch home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo eats breakfast with his two youngest sons at his ranch home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • José Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a rancher of Pima heritage living in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico, with one 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 in August was 2900 kcals. He is 33 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 167 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The family of Pima rancher José Angel Galaviz enjoys breakfast at his home in the Sierra Mountains  near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Molino de Flores National Park, Mexico. Laura Meruz and Raul Ortiz grow their own corn and make cheese quesadillas with blue corn tortillas. Near Mexico City.
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  • The Itanoni Tortillería in Oaxaca, Mexico, sells handmade tortillas cooked on top of clay ovens. It contracts with local growers to produce increasingly rare native varieties of corn. Oaxaca is the center of diversity for corn, the world headquarters, so to speak, of its gene pool. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 285).
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  • The Itanoni Tortilleria ("Gourmet Tortillas") in Oaxaca, Mexico sells handmade tortillas from native corn that it contracts local growers to produce. In the back room, workers wash dried corn after cooking it. It is then ground into a moist flour that is pressed into tortillas and cooked on clay oven tops, called "comals".
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  • Molino de Flores. National park, Mexico. At Mirador Restaraunt in El Molino de Flores National Park near Mexico city, Virginia Meras, the wife of the owner grills hand made blue corn tortillas full of cheese and squash blossom flowers for weekend clientele. Near Mexico City.
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  • The Itanoni Tortillería in Oaxaca, Mexico, sells handmade tortillas cooked on top of traditional clay ovens. It contracts with local growers to produce increasingly rare native varieties of corn. Oaxaca is the center of diversity for corn, the world headquarters, so to speak, of its gene pool. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Itanoni Tortillería in Oaxaca, Mexico, sells handmade tortillas cooked on top of traditional clay ovens. It contracts with local growers to produce increasingly rare native varieties of corn. Oaxaca is the center of diversity for corn, the world headquarters, so to speak, of its gene pool. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After the Saturday soccer game, Diana and Alejandrina perform a family ritual: making fresh tortillas (in background) for cheese quesadillas. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 273). The Fernandez family of San Antonio, Texas, 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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  • Cook prepares blue corn tortillas at the El Mirador Restaurant in Molino de Flores National Park, outside Mexico City, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Two women prepare a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Roasted grasshoppers, chapulines, and mashed avocado on a corn tortilla, Mexico City, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Juan Cruz and Pedro Mendoza search for red agave worms while cultivating their maguey cacti; the worms end up in tequila bottles to both certify the regional authenticity and to confirm the proof of the brew, as well as on dinner plates fried with corn tortillas, refried beans, grated cheese, sour cream, and avocado to make Chinicuiles con Aguacate, near Matatlán, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 114-115)
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  • Esthela, the wife of Pima rancher José Angel Galaviz prepares tortillas while her sons wait at their home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Mendoza kitchen in their home in  Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, is the center of family life, and his wife's cooking unlocks the key to Fortunato's heart. "I am happiest," Fortunato (at right, center) says, "when I'm eating Susana's rice and beans, her homemade tortillas, and her turkey soup." Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 160).
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  • Pima farmer Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo's wife Esthela makes tortillas by hand, cooking them on top of the wood stove, which also serves as a heat source during chilly Sierra Madre mountain winters a their home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Her two youngest sons wait for breakfast, while her oldest son helps José with the milking. Practically self-sufficient, the family does buy some basic food and supplies, like powdered milk, at Disconsa, one of a network of government-subsidized stores catering to rural communities, in the town of Maycoba, six miles from their home. They grow their own corn and grind it, but Esthela keeps bags of masa flour on her pantry shelf for making tortillas. MODEL RELEASED.
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