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  • Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut, cleaning barley in the light from the doorway. After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, roasts nuts over a low fire in the cooking hut, in preparation for a White Sunday feast at the Lagavale home in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut in the village of Tingo, in the central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, 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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  • Margarita, a Yanomami who maintains a dedication to the traditions and heritage of her people in the face of increased Western influence, sits in her hut in a hammock, cooking yams over a wood fire. She is in the midst of a village in which many have assumed the traditions of Western visitors who ironically came to study the uninfluenced Yanomami peoples. Sejal, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 170,171)
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba boys and girls sit in a hut made of wood and earth in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares her family's fish dinner by the light of an oil lamp at the kitchen window of their riverside farmhouse near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  With no indoor plumbing, she tackles anything messy on an overhanging counter, letting chickens and dogs clean up the scraps below.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Artemio Martinez family getting ready for breakfast in their simple house near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut in Tingo, Ecuador, cleaning barley in the light from the doorway. After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114).
    ECU04_0008_xxf1rw.jpg
  • Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut, cleaning barley in the light from the doorway in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114). After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge.   Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Woman winnowing grain in a village outside of Mopti, Mali near the Niger River. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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