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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Brown family of Riverview, Australia with a week's worth of food: Doug Brown, 54, and his wife Marge, 52, with their daughter Vanessa, 32, and her children, Rhy, 12, Kayla, 15, John, 13, and Sinead, 5. The length of the Brown's grocery list changes depending on whether Vanessa and her children are living with them at the moment. The Brown family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 22).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast during the children's summer vacation at the Brown family home in Riverview, Australia (outside of Brisbane) is low-key and unstructured. Everyone eats when the mood strikes them. Vanessa bustles about, scrambling eggs for Sinead and herself. The boys help themselves to cereal and sandwiches. Meanwhile, Doug cooks himself a hearty breakfast of fried meat, onions, gravy, and buttered toast, and oversees his wife's meal of cereal and juice; since her stroke, Marge has been trying to eat a more healthy diet. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 29).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Marge Brown hugs her beloved refrigerator in the kitchen of her rented home in Riverview, Australia (near Brisbane). While the Browns 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. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). 5-year old Sinead Brown gazes into her family's nearly-empty freezer in the kitchen of their rented home in Riverview, Australia (near Brisbane). Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. Sinead's mother Vanessa is cooking at the stove. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Sinead Brown grazes through her grandparent's nearly-empty refrigerator in the kitchen of their rented home in Riverview, Australia (near Brisbane). Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast during the children's summer vacation at the Brown family home in Riverview, Australia (outside of Brisbane) is low-key and unstructured. Everyone eats when the mood strikes them. This morning Doug cooked himself a hearty breakfast of fried meat, onions, gravy, and buttered toast, while overseeing his wife's meal of cereal and juice. Since her stroke, Marge has been trying to eat a more healthy diet. Also pictured are Vanessa attending to daughter Sinead, and Rhy standing at the counter eating a sandwich. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Doug Brown's breakfast of pork and onions in gravy with buttered toast in Riverview, Australia, outside Brisbane. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 244).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). John Brown holds his sister Sinead as they graze in the nearly-empty refrigerator. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 27).
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  • Doug Brown visits his butcher in Ipswich, Australia (near Brisbane) to purchase one weeks' worth of meat for his family's upcoming photo shoot. Normally Doug would buy enough for two weeks since he gets a fortnightly government disability check. (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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  • (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). 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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  • (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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  • 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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  • (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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 13).  The Brown family 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). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. They are visiting a MacDonald's near their home in Riverview, (near Brisbane) Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Brown family 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). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. They are visiting a MacDonald's near their home in Riverview, (near Brisbane) Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Brown family 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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  • Brisbane, a tropical city, has heavy thunderstorms almost every afternoon in the summer. Shown here is a view of the surrounding area. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 25).  This image is featured alongside the Brown family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Whether the name refers to the fine sand on its beaches or the money pouring in from commercialization, Brisbane's famed Gold Coast has become Australia's biggest tourist development. Every summer, throngs of just-graduated high school students invade Surfers Paradise, as this beach 30 miles southeast of the city is known. Their arrival kicks off what is sardonically called "schoolies week." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Whether the name refers to the fine sand on its beaches or the money pouring in from commercialization, Brisbane's famed Gold Coast has become Australia's biggest tourist development. Every summer, throngs of just-graduated high school students invade Surfers Paradise, as this beach 30 miles southeast of the city is known. Their arrival kicks off what is sardonically called "schoolies week." Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 33).  This image is featured alongside the Molloy family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Whether the name refers to the fine sand on its beaches or the money pouring in from commercialization, Brisbane's famed Gold Coast has become Australia's biggest tourist development. Every summer, throngs of just-graduated high school students invade Surfers Paradise, as this beach 30 miles southeast of the city is known. Their arrival kicks off what is sardonically called "schoolies week." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Whether the name refers to the fine sand on its beaches or the money pouring in from commercialization, Brisbane's famed Gold Coast has become Australia's biggest tourist development. Every summer, throngs of just-graduated high school students invade Surfers Paradise, as this beach 30 miles southeast of the city is known. Their arrival kicks off what is sardonically called "schoolies week." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The City Cat tourist boat cruises by downtown Brisbane, Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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