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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief with her day's worth of food outside her house in a Maasai village compound near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of January was 800 kcals. She is 38 years of  age: 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Noolkisaruni has her own house for sleeping and a windowless cooking house with earth and dung chinked into the walls. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family business: cattle and goats. She is photographed here with her day's worth of food: largely maize meal and milk. The fallen tree on which her food rests was knocked down by a marauding wild elephant. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kibet Serem, a tea plantation farmer, with his day's worth in his tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of February was 3100 kcals. He is 25 years if age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 143 pounds. He cares for this small tea plantation that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi, a mother of four and microloan recipient with her day's worth of food outside her restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, milks a drought-stricken cow at her home near Narok, Kenya, and is able to draw only a half cup of milk. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of January was 800 kcals. She is 38; 5'5" and 103 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Villagers fetch water from a village-dug waterhole in a Maasai compound, Near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • A man holds up a mass of plastic bags retrieved from the stomach of a pregnant cow that became critically bloated and had to be slaughtered in a village near Narouk, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai helps a calf reunite with its mother before the morning milking in a Maasai village comopund near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, rinses spoons in a cooking pot as her herder waits for his breakfast of cornmeal porridge, "ugali", and sweet hot tea before setting off for the day to graze the family's cattle on the southern Kenyan plain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The mother and sister-in-law of Kibet Serem chat while a pot of milk heats over a fire to make yogurt in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Kibet looks after a tea plantation that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy and is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. Their staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Kibet Serem's sister-in-law Emily dishes up pinto beans and rice as Kibet Serem's mother, Nancy, watches a Kipsigis music video. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Kibet Serem and his sister-in-law Emily strain the milk from the family's five cows in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, arranges the food items of Kibet Serem, a tea producer and small scale farmer in Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). Kibet cares for this small tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya, that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Unilever tea plantation workers' housing amidst the lush, rolling tea fields in the Kericho district, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The Kericho district in the Great Rift Valley has rich volcanic soil, cool air, and a moist tropical climate that's perfect for growing tea. With its popular tea brand Lipton, Unilever has helped make Kenya the number one exporter of black tea in the world. Since the evergreen tea bushes are picked every 14 to 17 days year-round, there is constant work for pickers. They're paid by the kilo of tea leaves and a field foreman reported that they can earn between $3 and $9 (USD) per day. To compete with Unilever and James Finlay, another huge corporate tea producer in Kenya, the Kenya Tea Development Agency represents half a million small-scale tea growers throughout Kenya.
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  • Used shoes for sale along railway tracks in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Roseline Amondi, a mother of four and microloan recipient who runs a small restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, eats at her restaurant with her neighbor, Kennedy Mbori. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fried tilapia from Lake Victoria is ready for customers at Roseline Amondi's market stall in the Kibera Slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A man with a goat on a leash walks past a mosque in Narok, Kenya on an afternoon with threatening storm clouds looming.
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  • Vendors push trolleys at a market Narok, Kenya, after an afternoon rainstorm.
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  • Vendors sell vegetables and fruit outside a marketplace pub in Narok, Kenya.
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  • Villagers milk goats in a Maasai village compound during drought conditions, yielding very little milk, near Narok, Kenya. Maasai wealth is derived from the ownership of cattle, land and the number of children born to support the family business to look after cattle and goats.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, cooks  at her home in a Maasai village compound near Narok, Kenya.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai (center), the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, oversees the slaughter of her pregnant cow, which became critically bloated after it ingested plastic bags resulting in a 10 kilogram mass that obstructed it's digestive system. (Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai (center), the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, oversees the slaughter of her pregnant cow, which became critically bloated after it ingested plastic bags resulting in a 10 kilogram mass that obstructed it's digestive system   (Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A Maasai woman at a weekly market in Oldorko Maasai village,  several hours from Narok, Kenya. The jewelery worn by the Maasai is symbolic through its colors and patterns.
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