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  • After a hard day of work as a bike messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service in Tokyo, Japan, Jun Yajima (left) takes a train ride home. Physically exhausted after a long day's work, he is able to catch a nap standing up on the hour long commute. (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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  • Ilona Radzins, the beekeeper's wife, makes tea for guests and shares her family's honey, drizzled on a dense slice of dark sour rye bread in their cozy kitchen overlooking the fruit trees and sauna house in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Honey, drizzled on a dense slice of dark sour rye bread. Beekeeper Aivars Radzins, occasionally receives bread in exchange for the honey he produces in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat,; Around the World in 80 Diets.) The loaf comes wrapped in maple leaves baked into the crust.
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  • The Radzins family enjoys a traditional Sunday lunch at a neighborhood restaurant in Vecpiebalga, Latvia, complete with kvass, a fermented drink made from rye bread and sweetened with sugar or fruit. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Latvia's capital city Riga, with Riga's Old Town and the Daugava River in the distance. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Riga, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has the oldest continuously running market in Europe, and is known throughout Europe for its choral traditions. It proudly hosts the nationwide Latvian Song and Dance Festival every five years. In 2008 more than 38,000 singers, dancers, and musicians participated in the weeklong event.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographs voice coach Ansis Sauka and the Kamer Latvian youth choir in Riga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Pig parts and lard are displayed for sale in the municipal market in Cuernavaca, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere?as these photographs demonstrate?come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a Pima farmer, prepares to milk a cow in a corral adjacent to his house in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Milking is a chore that rotates among extended family members.
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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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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto at his home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • José Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a rancher of Pima heritage, having tea with his son Favien at their home in the Sierra Mountains, near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Hungry Lion fastfood shop in downtown Windhoek, Namibia, does a brisk business selling burgers, fries, and chicken. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, in her bedroom after a hard day at the factory. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Namibians of various ethnicities mingle at Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia on a weekday afternoon. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Alcohol flows freely for those who can afford it, while those who can't try to solicit passersby for money, tobacco, and beer.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua's older brother plays with her son as she eats porridge left over from breakfast in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia as her father's third wife, Mukoohirumbu, cleans her baby's face. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After filling up their containers they will flip their headdresses back and carry the jugs of water home on their heads.
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  • During chilly mornings and evenings in northern Namibia's rainy season, the women of Okapembambu village draw steaming buckets of milk from their cows, despite the distraction of ankle-deep mud and manure. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Milk and its by-products are the Himba's most important source of nutrition. The women add a bit of soured milk to the fresh liquid to hasten the process of natural fermentation, and they shake calabash gourds for hours to make butter. They drink some of the soured milk, use some to make their cornmeal porridge, and mix butterfat with ochre to make their body cream.
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  • A Himba boy finishes cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • In the tall grass of Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, at the edge of a salt pan, a normally dry lakebed bigger than Rhode Island, a male lion looks for something to kill and eat. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Diamond polisher Mestilde's Shigwedha's netball team (outside the court on left) waits their turn to play in a city tournament in Windhoek, Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The team is sponsored by Mesti's employer, NamCot Diamonds, which is part of the Steinmetz Group.
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  • Flies feasting on kapana (strips of freshly butchered beef) don't seem to bother customers at the busy Oshetu Market near the Katutura area of Windhoek, Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A colorful selection of local dishes in a Palestinian restaurant in Abu Dis, just outside the barrier near East Jerusalem, includes hummus, olives, chiles, beets, cabbage slaw, and baba ganoush. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's wife, Munira, tends to the makloubeh at the stove, while his daughter Mariam, 14, chops tomatoes at their extended family's home in the village of Abu Dis, East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Their 8-year-old daughter, Maram, saunters through, escaping kitchen duties before the big weekend midday meal.
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem and his family having a mid day meal in the Palestinian village Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A woman walks on a sidewalk along the edge of the Griebodov Canal outside the Church of our Saviour on the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Suppression and neglect during the Soviet era have bequeathed restoration artists like Vyacheslav Grankovskiy with a lifetime of restoration work.
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  • A tourist views murals and statues at the vast State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Historic buildings like the museum and the Church of our Savior on Spilled Blood have occupied restoration artists like  Vyacheslav Grankovskiy for years due to suppression and neglect during the Soviet era.
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  • Art restorer  Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy (center)  enjoys supper with his family in their house, near on Lake Ladoga, in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53; 6a feet two inches and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says.
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  • Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada watches as his brother Paco quenches his thirst with a long pour of red wine from a porron, a traditional glass container designed to eliminate the need for individual glassware at their house in the tiny village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Because the brothers eat mainly meat, they're largely self-sufficient when it comes to food. Because there isn't a bakery or market in their small village, they shop once a week in Guadalajara or another larger town about a half-hour drive away.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • On a cold, foggy morning three days before Easter, Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada escorts a sheep out of the barn to the vacant building they use as a slaughter house near their ranch in the tiny village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada and his brother Paco slaughter a sheep for Easter at their family ranch in the tiny village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The sheep will be skinned, gutted, and hung in the cold house, and the meat will be eaten at Easter, when the extended family comes for dinner.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares guides his second bull of the day as it charges past his body at full speed at the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After a dozen more passes, he kills the bull on his first attempt, eliciting a standing ovation from the crowd, which awards him the bull's ears and tail. Oscar and the bull spend just under 15 minutes together in the ring?an anxious period in which Oscar must control not only the objective dangers, but also his fear.   Each bullfight ends with the killing of the bull by the matador (bullfighter).  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares' first bull of the day roars by him not long after charging out of the gate on a stifling midsummer day in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.   (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares guides his second bull of the day as it charges past his body at full speed at the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant on the Costa Brava in northeastern Spain, tastes throughout the afternoon and evening as he oversees the chefs at his world-famous eatery. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • During an afternoon downpour, sellers help shoppers select crabs, shrimp, squid, and mackerel at a market in Daxi harbor, Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A basket of bigeye snapper is  displayed on a bed of ice for shoppers at the Daxi fish market Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A fishing boat uses bright lights and nets to catch shrimp at night near the port of Longdong, on Taiwan's northeast coast. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Just south of Longdong, the fish market at Daxi harbor has both a wholesale and a retail market.
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  • The Longshan Temple in downtown Taipei, although officially Buddhist and dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, has traces of many other folk religions. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A Buddhist pilgrim prostrates herself and prays in front of the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The head monk extends his tongue to greet visitors at the reconstructed monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.) An extended tongue is a common greeting that indicates respect. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Three monks chant and read holy Buddhist scripts outside their monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sculpted figurines, called tormas, are offerings made of tsampa (barley flour) and butter.
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  • In a brisk morning breeze, two women from a nearby village tie prayer flags along a pilgrim path overlooking a reconstructed Buddist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Most of the buildings remain in ruins after being destroyed in the 1960s.
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  • Pilgrims pour steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's son wrangles the calves so that Phurba can milk their mothers near their tent on the Tibetan Plateau.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife, Phurba, milks one of the family's dris in the early morning at their home in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The male yaks remain free at night, grazing at higher elevations, and the dris and their calves are tethered close to the tent to make milking in the morning convenient, and to prevent the calves from suckling all the milk.
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  • Six-year-old Nyima Dun Drup takes a turn at the butter churn as Phurba puts a pot of milk on the fire and Karsal talks to a neighbor at the Tibetan nomadic family's home in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Nomadic herders Karsal and his wife Phurba pour butter tea onto their breakfast tsampa as their son watches at their home in the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Karen Tucker, the lobsterman Samuel Tucker's wife, discusses morning logistics with her family over pancakes before heading to the ferry with her sons at Great Diamond Island, Maine..  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • As an auction buyer, lobsterman Samuel Tucker examines sow hake in the nearly empty warehouse before the fish auction at Great Diamond Island, Maine. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 3,800 kcals. He is 50; 6 feet 1 and 1/2 inches and 179 pounds. Catches are increasingly sparse, and today's will require only a half hour to auction.
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  • Lobsterman Samuel Tucker's breakfast of fresh shrimp and eggs. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 3,800 kcals. He is 50; 6 feet 1 and 1/2 inches and 179 pounds.
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  • Michael Rae, on a weekday morning run near his suburban Philadelphia home (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in July was fixed at 1,900 kcals. He is 32; 5'11,5" and 114 pounds. Michael is research assistant to the theoretician and biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, and they are the coauthors of the book Ending Aging.
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin's apprentice, Andy Wendt gathers eggs inside a portable henhouse, which is moved to a fresh section of pasture every few days at the Salatins farm in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A prayer and then supper at Joel and Teresa Salatin's eighteenth-century farmhouse in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Joel (center) and Teresa (at his left) are joined by Joel's mother, Lucille, who lives on the farm, and farm apprentices Andy Wendt and Ben Beichler. Supper tonight is Teresa's honey-baked Polyface Farms chicken, which ?can't be served without her homemade applesauce,? says Joel. In addition, there are buttered potatoes, garden-fresh green beans with cured bacon, buttered beets, and sliced fresh garden vegetables. But Joel's favorite meal of the day? Breakfast! ?Aw man, pancakes, eggs, and sausage or bacon!?
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  • At dawn, the chickens in an eggmobile (portable henhouse) at Joel Salatin's farm in Shenandoah, Virginia are released to spend the day pecking in the pastures that cattle have just vacated. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The chickens spend the day eating insects, grass, seeds, and undigested bits in the cattle manure (helping to scatter it in the process).
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  • After moving the portable henhouses to a fresh pasture with his tractor at dawn, Virginia farmer Joel Salatin heads back to the barns to help rotate cattle from one pasture to another. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3,900 kcals. He is 50; 5 feet 11 inches and 198 pounds. Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.
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  • Paul Lowe, a 500-pound Gulf War veteran who says he was shot in the back in Kuwait at home in a housing project in Knoxville, Tennessee. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rick Bumgardener, a self-taught gospel singer, guitar player, and lay preacher, sings an original song, ?Give Us Barabbas,? at his home in Halls, Tennessee while his dog, Bear lies at his feet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds. Rick used to enjoy preaching and playing on Wednesday evenings at Copper Ridge Independent Missionary Baptist Church before he became too heavy to stand for long periods. Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them. To relieve boredom, he wakes up late, plays video games, plays his guitar, and watches TV until the early hours of the morning. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Weighing in at 468 pounds for his first exercise class at Mercy Health and Fitness Center near his home in Halls, Tennessee, Rick learns a series of seated exercises.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds. Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them. A self-taught gospel singer, guitar player, and lay preacher, Rick used to enjoy preaching and playing on Wednesday evenings at Copper Ridge Independent Missionary Baptist Church before he became too heavy to stand for long periods. To relieve boredom, he wakes up late, plays video games, plays his guitar, and watches TV until the early hours of the morning.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • On Sunday, coal miner Todd Kincer and his family attend Millstone Methodist United Church in Mayking Kentucky, where the Reverend Harold Kincer, Todd's father and a retired coal miner, asks Jesus's blessings as he kneels and lays his hand on his wife, Judy, who plays music in the church. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The service features fire and brimstone, interspersed with some fine singing by congregation members who take to the mic after handing over their CD of background music to the music director.
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  • After church, coal miner Todd Kincer and his wife, Christy, join extended family and friends at an all-you-can-eat restaurant buffet in Whitesburg, Kentucky. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Coalminer Todd Kincer and his wife sharing a meal of Hamburger Helper at home near Whitesburg, Kentucky. (Todd Kincer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Emerging from the portal after a 10-hour shift, a dozen of coal miner Todd Kincer's colleagues lounge on the ?man car? that transports them to and from the coal face, several miles into the mountain, at the Advantage One Mine outside Whitesburg, Kentucky. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The snack section at Food City in the Appalachian coal mining area near Whitesburg, Kentucky.
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto's children play with a pitbull at their new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tiffany Whitehead,(right) a student and part-time ride supervisor at the Mall of America amusement park, goes on a routine check of the mall with a colleague in Bloomington, Minnesota. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Mall of America is the largest among some 50,000 shopping malls in the United States. In addition to a huge amusement park, it houses over 500 stores, 26 fast-food outlets, 37 specialty food stores, and 19 sit-down restaurants, and employs more than 11,000 year-round employees. In excess of 40 million people visit the mall annually, and more than half a billion have visited since it opened in 1992. Tiffany's job involves a lot of walking. Her main beat is the amusement park area, where she responds to radio calls regarding stalled rides and lost children and answers visitors' questions. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lunch time for visitors at the Mall of America.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Mall of America is the largest among some 50,000 shopping malls in the United States. In addition to a huge amusement park, it houses over 500 stores, 26 fast-food outlets, 37 specialty food stores, and 19 sit-down restaurants, and employs more than 11,000 year-round employees. In excess of 40 million people visit the mall annually, and more than half a billion have visited since it opened in 1992.
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  • In the main grinding room of the Rochester Meat Company in Grand Meadow, Minnesota, where meat grinder Kelvin Lester works, workers roll vats of freshly ground beef from the mixing and grinding machines to the machines that form the hamburger patties. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The patties are spit out onto a conveyer belt that goes through spiral flash-freezing tunnels, and then the frozen pink pucks are packed into big boxes for restaurants.
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  • At home after work, meat grinder Kelvin Lester grills hamburger patties, well-done, for the family's supper as his adopted daughter Kiara looks on. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in June was 2,600 kcals. He is 44; 5 feet 11 inches and 195 pounds.
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  • Kelvin Lester maneuvers a 2,000-pound bin of ?50s? (carcass trimmings that are half fat) toward the grinding and blending machines at the Rochester Meat Company in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Less desirable trimmings with a higher fat content are ground into blends with different percentages of lean meat. The ton of 50s is added to other leaner cuts, and sometimes reconstituted beef fat?which is even cheaper?is mixed in as well.
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes. An old wind powered water pump is at left.
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  • 265-foot wind turbines tower over wheat fields in Birds Landing, California as Peter Menzel photographs John Opris with his day's worth of food for a book. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mackenzie Wolfson, a natural athlete and accomplished tennis player and a member of her school's varsity softball team, plays softball at Camp Shane, Catskill Mountains, New York. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in July was 1,700 kcals. She is 15; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 299 pounds.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mackenzie Wolfson, a natural athlete (top left) and accomplished tennis player who plays on her school's varsity softball team goes through the first activity of every day at Camp Shane, a stretching class. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in July was 1,700 kcals. She is 15; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 299 pounds.
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  • The weight loss camp?called Camp Shane?in upstate New York.  Meal portions are tightly controlled, and camp activities include field hockey, softball, tennis, swimming and aerobics. Meetings with nutritionists and weekly weigh-ins are part of the program. Camp Shane is a weight loss camp for children, teens, and young adults, in the Catskills Region of New York State, established in 1969.
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  • Mackenzie Wolfson, a natural athlete (second from left) and accomplished tennis player and a member of her school's varsity softball team, takes a break on the sidelines of a field hockey game on a hot afternoon with her teammates at Camp Shane, Catskill Mountains, New York.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in July was 1,700 kcals. She is 15; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 299 pounds.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran, gripping his leg tightly as he experiences one of many episodes of phantom pain at his parents home in Inglewood, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 2100 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 135 pounds. Felipe was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. Damaged nerves that normally enervate a missing or paralyzed body part can trigger the body's most basic warning that something isn't right: pain. Felipe experiences these phantom pains, which feel like stabbing electric shocks, dozens of times a day; they cause him to grip his leg tightly for a moment or two until the sensation subsides. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, goes for lunch at his favorite neighborhood café, Petite Sara, across busy West Pico Boulevard in Inglewood, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 2100 kcals. He is 30; 5'10" and 135 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ernie Johnson, a finish carpenter and paddle surfer, dining on grilled salmon with his wife Andie on their 38 foot sailboat where they live docked at Dana Point Harbor, California..   (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 3500 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 165 pounds.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly, eating at Marouch Restaurant in Los Angeles, California.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A medic responds to mayhem after a simulated explosion seemingly destroys an Army Humvee inside the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Hundreds of military and civilian actors and scores of directors participate in elaborate training exercises for soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures in the Mojave Desert, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • U.S. Army officer Curtis Newcomer eats chili mac, his favorite MRE, at lunch time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds. His weapon is fitted with a laser that interacts with receivers worn by all of the soldiers and actors in the training exercise, regardless of duty, rank, or location in the training theater. At left: After the second of three mock battles of the day, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. MODEL RELEASED.
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