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  • High school student Katherine Navas and her family eat dinner at their home in Caracas, Venezuela.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Dinner at Katherine's house is a family affair. Her mother is the chief cook, but everyone helps. Tonight's dinner is fresh fried fish from an uncle's shop. During meals, the television is turned off and the day's events are recounted by even the youngest.
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  • Jill McTighe and family, Willesdon, London, UK
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  • Family in their living room, Mexico City, Mexico.
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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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  • Jill McTighe and family, Willesdon, London, UK
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  • Sr. Muna and his family having drinks at a cafe, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • A robotic waiter rolls up with an order of spaghetti and clams at a Tokyo, Japan restaurant. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • High school student Katherine Navas and her family eat dinner at their home in Caracas, Venezuela.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Dinner at Katherine's house is a family affair. Her mother is the chief cook, but everyone helps. Tonight's dinner is fresh fried fish from an uncle's shop. During meals, the television is turned off and the day's events are recounted by even the youngest.
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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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  • Jill McTighe and family, Willesdon, London, UK
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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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  • Dumont family at home in Paris, France. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver, at a midday meal with his family in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their home.
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  • Family matriarch Nalim with her youngest daughter Zekom. Nalim's teeth are damaged by the use of betel nut (a mildly narcotic tree fruit). Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Astrid Holmann's daughter Lillith in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Penny supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm,  and son, Malte Erik at the stove. Preparing white asparagus for supper. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez, restaurant owner and chef takes a phone order in her family's Mexican restaurant, Los Dos Laredos, in Chicago, Illinois while her daughter, Alejandra, checks her mobile phone after school. (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 September was 3,200 kcals. She is is 39; 5'2.5" and 190 pounds. She grew up in an apartment above Los Dos Laredos, where she still helps out two days a week. Other days she spends long hours at her own restaurant in Alsip, Illinois. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Astrid Holmann's daughter Lillith in Hamburg, Germany shopping in the Penny supermarket. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm,  and son, Malte Erik at the stove. Preparing white asparagus for supper. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez speaks to her daughter in the kitchen of her Mexican restaurant El Coyote, in the suburb of Alsip, Chicago.  (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, her husband Nasrullah, 51, and their daughter Nabeela, 23 with their typical week's worth of food in June. Their son, R. Shan, is studying at a distant university in Norway (photo on wall). Food Expenditure for one week: 2,002.48 Norwegian Kroner; $343.48 USD. Model-Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm leaving their second floor apartment. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Hilo Hawaii. Husband and wife with young daughter at the Hula festival.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, her husband Nasrullah, and their daughter Nabeela, 23 with Pritpal's parents, the Sakhi's, at a weekend lunch in their home. Model-Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm leaving their second floor apartment. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Father and daughter watch a parade for the patron saint of the village of Malojloj on the South Island. U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands.
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  • Mother and daughter learning to rollerskate. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez, restaurant owner and chef takes a phone order in her family's Mexican restaurant, Los Dos Laredos, in Chicago, Illinois while her daughter, Alejandra, checks her mobile phone after school. (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 September was 3,200 kcals. She is is 39; 5'2.5" and 190 pounds. She grew up in an apartment above Los Dos Laredos, where she still helps out two days a week. Other days she spends long hours at her own restaurant in Alsip, Illinois. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Choeden leans out the window of her family's three-story rammed earth home in Shingkhey. (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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  • Mio Ukita has her hair brushed by her mother Sayo before school. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • A disabled Vietnamese War veteran friend of Thuan Nguyen Van at his son's house in  Hanoi, Vietnam. (Thuan Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets films game ranger Uahoo Uahoo at Etosha National Park in north-western Namibia. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Michael Sturm family at suppertime in Hamburg, Germany. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
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  • Michael Sturm family at suppertime in Hamburg, Germany. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
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  • A motorcyclist carries a child in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Lorenskog, Oslo, Norway. Family portrait of the Qureshi family with one week’s worth of food in June. The Hungry Planet project.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Emma D'Aluisio, 20, at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA with her uncle, Peter Menzel. mmm
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  • Emma D'Aluisio, 20, at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA with her aunt, Faith D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Base Camp at Redwood Summer, a conglomeration of environmental activists who camped out near Willow Creek, California, USA, to protest excessive logging during the summer of 1990.
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  • Angele Restaurant, Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Tobacco - The Clifton Walton family strips dried tobacco from the stalks in their barn in Charlotte, Tennessee. USA.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; interior, Colorado Indian home.
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  • Hawaiian man and child. Hula contest in Hilo, on the Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kitchen workers outside a hotel in Merida, Mexico, Yucatan.
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  • Matxus Osinaga, family.  Madrid, Spain.
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  • Torrens family in their living room. Madrid, Spain.
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  • Meat Market, Valencia, Spain.
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  • A family harvests garlic, near Naples, Italy.
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  • Icelandic man with Chinese baby on his shoulders taking a photo on the rocky beach near Stykkisholmur, Iceland.
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  • The Schmidt family eats outside their home near Cologne, Germany..MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Madru Choudhary (right), is the chief custodian of the Harishchandra cremation ghat in Varanasi, India. He was 45 at the time the photo was taken and his family has been "in the business" for generations.
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  • A typical Mexican dish of tacos and guacamole is served at Lourdes Alvarez's Mexican Restaurant El Coyote in Alsip, Chicago, Illinois. (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Train station in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • Maria Natercia Lopes-Furtado  and  Melody, in the kitchen of their home in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Gjerdrum, Norway. Family portrait of the Glad-Ostensen family with one week’s worth of food in June. The Hungry Planet project.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Anne Glad Fredricksen, 45, her husband Anders Ostensen, 48, and their three children, Magnus, 15, Mille 12, and Amund, 8 with their typical week's worth of food in June. Food expenditure for one week: 4265.89 Norwegian Kroner;  $731.71 USD. Model-Released.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • Swan boat on a Sunday afternoon in June. Lazienki Park, Warsaw.
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  • Paris, France. Dumont family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Poor people living on the sidewalk near Nariman Point; Bombay, India.
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  • Watching Teletubbies TV show in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • A woman adjusts  the wedding gown of a bride at a ceremony in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Millie Mitra (center in red top) eats dinner with her family at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • Millie Mitra (center), an education consultant and homeopathy devotee, enjoys dinner with her family at home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie's quest for health includes yoga, a vegan diet, a daily glassful and topical applications of her own urine. She has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Soumana Natomo, a Muslim, finishes his prayers at one of his two wives' homes as one of his daughters plays quietly. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Children, Child. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Sayo Ukita cleans up the house while her daughters are at school and husband is at work. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) with photos of their daughters Alice and Eleanore and their new son-in-law.
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  • A mother sits with her daughters in the market in Taxco, a colonial silver mining town sixty miles southwest of Mexico City, Mexico. She is selling bags of the edible iodine-rich flying stinkbug, the jumil (Euchistus taxcoensis). The jumil is rich in iodine and consuming them prevents diseases resulting from iodine deficiency like goiters and thyroid problems. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Le Moine family in the living room of their apartment in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, with a week's worth of food. Michel Le Moine, 50, and Eve Le Moine, 50, stand behind their daughters, Delphine, 20 (standing), and Laetitia, 16 (holding spaghetti and Coppelius the cat). From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) with photos of their daughters Alice and Eleanore and their new son-in-law.
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  • Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) with photos of their daughters Alice and Eleanore and their new son-in-law.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, fixes one of her daughters' hair outside her adobe house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs or stove, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Le Moine family in the living room of their apartment in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, with a week's worth of food. Michel Le Moine and Eve Le Moine,  stand behind their daughters, Delphine (standing), and Laetitia (holding spaghetti and Coppelius the cat). The Le Moine family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 124).
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  • Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK) with photos of their daughters Alice and Eleanore and their new son-in-law.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. Family members: Soumana Natomo, 46, sits flanked by his two wives, Fatoumata Toure, 33 and Pama Kondo, 35. Soumana and Fatoumata's children are daughter Tena, 4 months, daughter Fourou, 12, son Kansy, 4, and son and daughter Mama, 8, and Fatoumata, 10. Soumana and Pama's children are son Mamadou, 10, son Mama, 13, and son and daughter Kantie, 16, and Pai, 18. To Pama's left is Kadia Foune, 33, Soumana's sister-in-law, with her children Kantie, 1, and Mariyam, 8. The Natomo family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 206).
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  • Nalim holds her two-year-old daughter Zekom in a traditional hand-fashioned back sling as she works at the butter churn.  Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 77. Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Portrait of Lokman Demirovic (father of Arina and grandfather of Nadja); Nadja Bucolovic (10, daughter of Arina); and Arina Bucolovic (mother of Nadja and daughter of Lokman) in the living room of their Sarjevo apartment. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2001. ©2005 Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
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  • His 10-year-old daughter walks by as Alatupe Alatupe cooks sausages in the family cooking shed behind the main house for part of the White Sunday feast. 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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  • Namgay with his daughter Zekom, right, and his granddaughter Choeden and baby grandson Wangchuck in the kitchen of their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Namgay and Nalim's family in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. (Some of their children, from left to right): Their grandson Chato Geltshin, and daughter Bangam (holding her younger sister Zekom). From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Bhutanese language writing class at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. Nalim and Namgay's daughter Bangam attends this school. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • English lesson in classroom at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. Nalim's daughter Bangam is in attendance (although out of frame). Children in Bangam's class range from 6 to 17 in age. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • English lesson in classroom at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. Nalim's daughter Bangam is in attendance (though out of frame). Children in Bangam's class range from 6 to 17 in age, some of who travel several hours to attend. The school is an hour walk from their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Nalim (in green jacket) talks to her daughter Bangum about prices before buying dried chili peppers from the vendors who line the wall at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan. The large town is a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. Nalim and her children and grandchildren walk there and back unless they can hitch a ride on a passing vehicle. (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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Glancing up at a visitor, Fourou: the twelve-year-old daughter of Soumana Natomo's second wife, Fatoumata, takes a momentary break from the family breakfast of thin rice porridge cooked with sour milk. Like most families in their village in Mali, the Natomos eat outdoors, sitting on low stools around a communal pot in the courtyard of their house. The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, 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). After pounding rice into flour in a large wooden mortar, Pama Kondo sifts it to get rid of any remaining hulls. Behind her, 10-year-old Fatoumata (daughter of Fatoumata Toure, Pama's co-wife) does much the same with some sorghum. Can she foresee a day when she will no longer have to pound grain? "That's what children are for," she replies seriously. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 212). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, 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). Pama Kondo (center, in blue) at the wedding celebration of her daughter Pai. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, 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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  • In a simulated bedroom complete with stuffed animals, tossed bedclothes, and a sleeping dummy victim, Robin R. Murphy of the University of South Florida keeps tabs on her marsupial robot; or, rather, robots. Developed to help search-and-rescue teams, the robots will work as a team. The larger "mother" is designed to roll into a disaster site. When it can go no farther, several "daughter" robots will emerge, marsupial fashion, from a cavity in its chest. The daughter robots will crawl on highly mobile tracks to look for survivors, feeding the mother robot images of what they see. Although the project is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Murphy's budget is hardly overwhelming. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 154-155.
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  • Wheat and dried chili peppers on the third floor storage area of Namgay and Nalim's house, Shingkhey, Bhutan. The Namgay household owns and rents land scattered in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home, each strip being devoted to one crop: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes.  Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Wheat on the third floor storage area of Namgay and Nalim's house, Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay work as partners; they take turns caring for the children and working in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Sangay chews betel nut and lime wrapped in a leaf, which, from long-term use, has discolored her teeth and gums. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Butter churning, cooking, and child care in Namgay and Nalim's home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Sangay cooks at the wood-burning hearth and earthen stove in the kitchen of the rammed earth home she and her husband and children share with Sangay's parents, and brothers and sisters. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Toshiko Taira, 87, of Kijoka, Okinawa, Japan. Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, and her daughter, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been named a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. Although older generations of Okinawans are still living into their one-hundredth year, some say that the decline of weaving in the home was the beginning of the decline of the lengthy life spans of Okinawans.
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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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  • Middle class mother with daughter lunches at McDonald's on a rainy day after her daughter's preschool gym class in Kobe, Japan.
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