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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Chato Namgay in Shingkhey, Bhutan standing with a lamp inside the prayer room of his family's house. (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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  • Sitting in lawn chairs under a tent with other guests of honor, a lama takes a swig of Pepsi during the electricity celebration. Chato Namgay (in red robe) has just lit the ritual butter lamps on an altar below the transformer on the power pole. Above a photo of the king, a sign reads: "Release of Power Supply to Rural Households Under Wangdi Phodrang Dzon Khag to Commemorate Coronation Silver Jubilee Celebration of His Majesty, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk." Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 43). 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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  • Young market vendors tend their family's cabbage, tomatoes, and onions in the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan, a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 40). This image is featured alongside the Namgay family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Jombey Lhakhang roasting barley in a monestary in the Bumthang Valley, Bhutan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Steam rises in clouds from the huge woks of this noodle vendor in Kunming, in southwest China. Cooked in the celebrated style of the city of Guiyang, 300 miles away, these egg noodles are served in a spicy broth and topped with chicken, beef, shiitake mushrooms, or (most famously) pig intestines and blood. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 14).
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  • McDonald's icon in Shanghai, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • Bathing in the Shipra River during Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world. Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • A crowd gathers before dawn on a bridge over the Shipra River which flows through the holy city of Ujjain, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the Shipras holy waters. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the Patkar family of Ujjain, India join the faithful throng in the cool of the evening and bathe in the river, too. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 169).
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  • Nagas (Hindu ascetics who are followers of Sadhus) congregate to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors..
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  • Dummies waiting for a dressing outside a department store near the Kyoto Railway Station in Kyoto, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Brilliantly colored parrotfish dominate a stall in the Makishi public market in the Okinawan town of Naha. Meticulously clean, Japanese markets are a testament to the affluence of this island nation. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 190).
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  • One of several hundred camels grazing in the Rumeilah Oil Field of Southern Iraq walks in front of a burning oil well being fought by the Kuwaiti Wild Well Killers, a division of the Kuwait Oil Company. The Rumeilah field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Soviet-style apartment blocks on the edge of Ulaanbaatar, a legacy of Mongolia's Communist past, are now surrounded by squatters; more accurately, urban homesteaders. Former nomads, they have precisely parceled out the land and staked out their neat gers. The gers lack indoor plumbing, but in other ways are more comfortable than the city's crowded apartments. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 228). This image is featured alongside the Batsuuri family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Life in the city is tough but slowly improving. Indeed, the free-range cows dumpster-diving in this parking lot are a perverse sign of affluence; Mongolians now have enough food to throw some away. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 231). This image is featured alongside the Batsuuri family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 10).
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