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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Casales family in the open-air living room of their home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with a week's worth of food. Marco Antonio, and Alma Casales Gutierrez, stand with baby Arath between them. At the table are their older children, Emmanuel, and Bryan. The Casales family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 218).
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  • In Cuernavaca's Colonial-era central square (the zócalo found in every Mexican town) city dwellers and visitors take their traditional late-afternoon weekend stroll among the balloon vendors while a band plays on the bandstand.  Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 221). This image is featured alongside the Casales family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Alma Casales cooks crab soup at her sister's restaurant in Cuernavaca, Mexico for both the patrons and her family. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 223).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Alma Casales, the children, and her brother-in-law Jorge emerges from their local Carrefour supermarket in Cuernavaca, Mexico after shopping for a weeks' worth of food for the family food portrait. Carrefour has since left the Mexico grocery market because of fierce competition. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emmanuel Casales with his father, Marco Antonio. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Casales family of Cuernavaca, Mexico, 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). Arath Casales peeks out from under his mother's apron (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Casales family of Cuernavaca, Mexico, 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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  • Shopping for the week's worth of food at a big supermarket in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Alma Casales marches to the cash register, chomping on an apple and laughing at the absurdity of buying so much bread at once. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 222).
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  • Shopping for the week's worth of food at a local market, Alma Casales weighs squash and onions along with other vegetables. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Casales family of Cuernavaca, Mexico, 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 what may be a disappearing custom, shoppers throng Cuernavaca, Mexico's daily public market, inspecting the alarmingly fresh meat (the hogs' heads in this image signal the presence of a butcher) and picking up snacks at the many small restaurants inside. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 224). This image is featured alongside the Casales family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Bathing, laundry, snacktime and just plain fun in the aquaduct at Los Pinos, Mexico, near Cuernavaca. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • In what may be a disappearing custom, shoppers throng Cuernavaca, Mexico's daily public market, inspecting the alarmingly fresh meat and picking up snacks at the many small restaurants inside (shown here). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 225). This image is featured alongside the Casales family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • In what may be a disappearing custom, shoppers throng Cuernavaca, Mexico's daily public market, inspecting the fresh meat and picking up snacks at the many small restaurants inside (shown here).(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pig parts and lard for sale in the municipal market, Cuernavaca, Mexico. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 165).
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  • Pig parts and lard for sale in the municipal market, Cuernavaca, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pig parts and lard for sale in the municipal market, Cuernavaca, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A display of chicken feet in Cuernavaca municipal market, Mexico (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Chicken for sale in the Cuernavaca municipal market, Mexico Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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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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  • Roses and onions for sale Cuernavaca municipal market, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Replicas of the baby Jesus on sale at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Mexico City. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A little boy tries on a wrestler's mask before he goes in to watch the popular Mexican wrestler's dazzle the crowd an each other with wrestling antics. Mexico (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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  • 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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  • 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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