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  • Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55) Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. Although the kitchens in these images are wildly different in location and appearance, all of them form the center of a home, even if only temporarily. Kitchens are where families take care of themselves. Cooking is a fundamental task that women, throughout the ages, have undertaken. 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) Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house as one of her sons watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55)
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  • New house blessing in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Monks perform a ceremony that includes music and chanting. The whole village is treated to a special meal inside afterward. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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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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  • Windtowers (called badgirs in Farsi) tower over homes in the city of Yazd, Iran. They are designed to catch the wind and cool homes and other buildings naturally, with no fans or electricity. Building structures in Iran are built close together, especially in the country's hot, arid central region, and their purposefully tall earthen and brick walls create maximum shade for pedestrians in the narrow adjacent alleyways.
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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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  • Soumana Natomo stands outside his small earthen grain shed, which sits above the weekly market grounds of Koukourou, his village located between the market town of Mopti and Djenne, Mali. He watches the merchants come by boat via the Niger River, in the early morning before the market begins, to set up stalls to sell their wares. Material World Project.
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites by hacking into their earthen mound, placing a cloth in front of the entrance, and collecting the ants that attack the cloth. Bweyogerere, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 148 Top)
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  • Earthen walled, thatch roofed graineries in the village of Somo, Mali (West Africa). Material World Project.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight prepares dinner for her family in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From 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, 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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  • Boys in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. The harvesters pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Built from mud bricks, windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), catch the wind and cool homes and other buildings. Building structures in Iran are built close together, especially in the country's hot, arid central region, and their purposefully tall earthen and brick walls create maximum shade for pedestrians in the narrow adjacent alleyways.  Yazd, Iran. Old City.
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  • Ermelinda's children enjoy soup and empanadas for breakfast in an earthen hut in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The family of eight consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From 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, 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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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere excitedly hunt for termites by hacking into their earthen mound, placing a cloth in front of the entrance, and yanking off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 148,149)
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  • Namgay's guests have their meal in front of the earthen wood-fired cooking stove, inside their three storey rammed earth home. The light bulb hanging from the ceiling is a novelty because it is the first day electricity has come to this remote, mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan as well as the surrounding region. (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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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. There is an electricity usage meter mounted on the earthen wall of Nalim and Namgay's house in the village.
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  • Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house as one of her sons watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, walks to a livestock market  with her husband and children in  Simiatug, Ecuador to sell sheep. (From 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 and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, 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.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, as one of her sons' watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (Supporting image from Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Nalim and Namgay's grandson, Geltshin, watches a wood worker cutting traditional shapes into a piece of wood for a new Bhutanese house. The carpenters, from another village, have set up camp and live at the work site while they do the woodwork for a new house in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth dot the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's neighbor is building a new house for his family directly in front of his old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. Villagers from each family come to help pound the dirt into wooden forms day after day, creating the walls of the earthen house. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba washes her hands in a small creek outside yak hair tent home in the Tibetan Plateau after picking fresh yak dung and made patties from it to dry in the sun for use as fuel for cooking on her earthen stove. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Amna Mustapha (in yellow dress) and a cousin fill earthen-walled pools with water for their animals near the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. They dip plastic containers into a six-foot well and then pour the water into the handmade pools. The millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall. Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season.
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (left) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 70).
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