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  • A tattooed patron sipping a beer at the bar of Triple Rock Microbrewery, formerly know as Roaring Rock. Berkeley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch stands next to barrels of beer at the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Joachim Rösch  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Ganter beer sign marks Ganter Brewery's beer hall in the Muensterplatz, in the center of the old town in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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  • CZE_39_xs.Prague, Czech Republic. Peter Menzel, holding beer, and Craig Unger, on right, in a beer hall..
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch with all the food he eats in a typical day at Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. (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 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: ?Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go,? he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch walks into a cloud of steam outside a factory at the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Joachim Rösch  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch speaks to lab workers who check the brewing process by sampling, at the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Joachim Rösch  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. Joachim Rösch is MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch conducts routine checks of the production process at the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Joachim Rösch  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joachim Rösch, a brewmaster at the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. (Joachim Rösch is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80  Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Bridgeport, Hot Spring. Jack and Evan Menzel and their friend Luke Sawyer enjoy the hot water with Luke's dad, Chris, who is drinking a beer. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Artist, Mark Bulwinkle at home in Oakland, California in his bedroom with his first wife and a can of beer. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • A gypsy family drinking Tecate beer at a picnic in a park in Zochimilco, Mexico.
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  • Buffalo Bill's Brewery, founded by photographer Bill Owens in 1983. In Hayward, California. Bill Owens shovels grain into a fermentation tank. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Miguel Ángel Martín Cerrada, a shepherd, with his typical day's worth of food, surrounded by his flock and sheep-herding mastiff in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the Book What I Eat: Around the Work in 80 Diets) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ernie Johnson cycles at the dock near his 38 foot sailboat at Dana Point Harbor, California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson at home in his 38 foot sailboat moored at Dana Point Harbor in California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A view of the loading area and warehouse of Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, where Joachim Rösch works as a brewmaster.  (Joachim Rösch is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80  Diets.)
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  • Ernie Johnson on his 38-foot sailboat at Dana Point Harbor, California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Winter Carnival, Quebec.Saturday night parade watchers, including a drunken man with a penis-shaped nose warmer. Canada.
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  • Sunset bar across the bamboo bridge on the Nam Khan River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Sunset bar across the bamboo bridge on the Nam Khan River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Sunset bar across the bamboo bridge on the Nam Khan River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • A fan lowers a bottle of wine with a fishing pole to a bullfighter after a very successful fight during April Fair, Seville, Spain.
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  • Kelvin Lester, a floor supervisor at a meat processing company with his typical day's worth of food at his kitchen table in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (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 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 195 pounds. The hands on the right belong to Kiara, his four-year-old adopted daughter. Several times a week, hamburger patties that he purchases with an employee discount wind up on his dinner table, and then go into his lunch box, along with his wife's homemade potato salad. With more than 20 years of experience grinding beef at the Rochester Meat Company, Kelvin says he always grills hamburgers?no matter who has ground them?until they are well-done, because any contamination is most easily rendered harmless by thorough cooking, meaning cooking them to an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Willie Ishulutak, an Innuit soapstone carver in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada with one day's typical food, and drink. (From the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of October was 4700 kcals. He is 29 years of age; 5 feet,  9 inches and 143 pounds. Carving is one of the few traditions of the Inuit that has made the leap into the wage-earning modern world. Willie says he can complete two or three pieces in a day, then sell them in the evening at bars and restaurants in Iqaluit for $100 ($93 USD) each, and sometimes more. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Art installation at Burning Man. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Lunch at the 3 Nagas Restaurant in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Lunch at the 3 Nagas Restaurant in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Sunset bar across the bamboo bridge on the Nam Khan River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Sunset bar across the bamboo bridge on the Nam Khan River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Sunset bar across the bamboo bridge on the Nam Khan River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Sheepherder 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. (Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in 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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  • Sheepherder Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada and his brother Paco eat at their home in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in 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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  • Ernie Johnson, a finish carpenter and paddle surfer, with his typical day's worth of food near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 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. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Marcus Dirr, a master butcher with one day's worth of food in his shop in Endingen, Germany, near Freiburg im Breisgau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in March was 4600 kcals. He is 43 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 160 pounds.  Germans are among the biggest meat eaters in Europe, but eat slightly less meat than in decades past.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • During the All Saints Day festival there seems to be no stigma attached to inebriation. The alcohol-altered state is not for adults only; a surprising number of young boys stagger around, and anyone with the money to buy a drink gets served; no questions asked. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 159). This image is featured alongside the Mendoza family of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In a rare moment, when not surrounded by the in-laws and cousins with whom they share a Colonial-era house, the Costa family: Ramon Costa Allouis, Sandra Raymond Mundi, and their children Lisandra, and Fabio, in the courtyard of their extended family's home in Havana, Cuba with one week's worth of food. The Costa family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 96)
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, with sheepherder Miguel Martinez (center in blue overalls), his girlfriend and his brother; and translators and assistants in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (Miguel Martinez is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • USA_SFOL_12_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Local's Night at Tom's Place on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Lunch at the 3 Nagas Restaurant in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Samuel Tucker, a lobsterman, with his typical day's worth of food in front of his boat at the Great Diamond Island dock in 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 years of age; 6 feet, 1.5 inches tall; and 179 pounds. Sam works the lobster boat by himself, saving on labor, but in the summertime his son Scout comes along. ?He's a blast,? says Sam. ?I take him and some of his friends out; they're all just leaning over the rail in their life preservers looking to see what's in the trap when it comes up. They're pretty good at saying, 'He's got a keeper.'? Sam's state license restricts his traps to the bay, where he averages only one lobster for every two traps. After paying for fuel and bait, there's not much profit. He supplements his income with fish auction commissions, and his family's diet with venison culled from the island's deer population.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Melander family: Jörg, and Susanne, with sons Kjell, and Finn, in the dining room of their home in Bargteheide, Germany, with a week's worth of food. The Melander family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 132).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Two hours later, lunch is ready. Six-year-old Cui Yuqi reaches for a piece of smoked chicken in the family's kitchen house. Other foods on the table include (clockwise from bottom) cauliflower and beef; pig's feet; dried tofu curd and cucumber; cucumber and beef; steamed egg-white custard; stir-fried green peppers and beef. The tomatoes in the center were picked from their kitchen garden that morning. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 88). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, 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).The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, in their living room with a week's worth of food. Cui Haiwang, 33, and Li Jinxian, 31, stand with their son, Cui Yuqi, 6, Haiwang's mother, Wu Xianglian, 61, and father, Cui Lianyou, 59, and Haiwang's grandmother, Cui Wu, 79. The Cui family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 82).
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  • University students eating at a café in Munich, Germany. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bounty Hunter Restaurant and Bar, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Beer can chicken: whole chickens smoked on a grill over a beer can half full of beer for several hours.
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  • Bounty Hunter Restaurant, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Sous chef Paul Larsick with beer can chicken: smoked, steamed chicken barbecued on a can of Tecate beer.
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  • Joachim Rösch, a brewmaster at the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany conducts a routine check of the factory.  (Joachim Rösch is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80  Diets.)   The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. The brewery's main hall showcases old polished copper vats, but Ganter now also uses stainless steel tanks with computerized controls in a blend of traditional and modern beer making. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Taking advantage of their visit to town at the end of market day, men (and a few women) visit the taverns to drink Andean beer  in Simiatug, in the central Andes in Ecuador.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian corporation software; 5:18 PM: Doug Merritt and Rani Hublou, the husband and wife team that leads Icarian, Inc. and the Icarian workforce in the company's Sunnyvale, California office. Merritt says that Icarian is managed so as to be a fun place to work. This is exemplified by the company-wide Friday afternoon in-line-skate hockey competitions that are held in the parking lot. Usually they drink beer from the company keg in the company lunchroom after the game but since this was the beginning of the Fourth of July weekend, everyone went home after the game at 6 PM. (1999).
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  • One of the bars in Simiatug, Ecuador, on market day. Taking advantage of their visit to town, men (and a few women) throng the taverns, to drink Andean beer and local hard liquor. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Matsu Zakimi (with purple eyeshadow applied by her great-granddaughter) during the celebration for her 97th birthday,at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Beer garden trumpet player. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Matsu Zakimi (with purple eyeshadow applied by her great-granddaughter) during the celebration for her 97th birthday,at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates; 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Village women outside their round house making traditional beer from the fruit of the marula tree in Tshamulavhu Village, Venda, South Africa.
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch leaving home in the morning going to his job at Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Joachim Rösch  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: "Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go," he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Stir-fried black water beetles prepared for a restaurant meal in Guangzhou, China (cold beer in background). Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A group of children on the street play checkers with beer bottle caps on a homemade checkerboard in Soweto, South Africa. Soweto is the nickname of Southwest Township, a sprawling lawless community outside Johannesburg. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • One of the bars in Simiatug, Ecuador, on market day. Taking advantage of their visit to town, men (and a few women) throng the taverns, to drink Andean beer and local hard liquor. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Taking advantage of their visit to town, men (and a few women) throng the taverns, to drink Andean beer. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 111).
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  • A great granddaughter speaks with her great grandmother Matsu Zakimi, 97, during her birthday celebration at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Shortly thereafter the young woman applies purple eyeshadow to the woman's eyelids before official birthday photographs. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents, (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates?88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Beer vending machine on the street near a subway station in Tokyo, Japan. Material World Project..
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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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