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  • Young boys eat out of an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) in Okapembambu, a village of the Himba tribespeople  in northwestern Namibia during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar's mother D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds his youngest sister, Hawa, 2 inside the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Aboubakar family from Darfur province, Sudan, which lives in the camp, is one of the thirty families featured with a weeks' worth of food in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, Abdel Kerim, 16, Acha, 12, Youssouf, 8, Mariam, 5, and Hawa, 2. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man roasts a goat head in the Breidjing Refugee Camp located in Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border. The camp shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • Camel slaughtered for meat by the side of the road in Mogadishu, Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A camel slaughter at dawn in Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A camel slaughter at dawn in Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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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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  • 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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  • Widowed farmer Lan Guihua enjoys lunch at a small restaurant in a market town near Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Chen Zhen, 20, law student in Shanghai China at home on the weekend with her father, grandmother and grandfather at dinner.  She eats at KFC 3 times a week during the school week. (Chen Zhen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, India. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests?called Sadhus?that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. Generally, he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. Offer him more food than a plateful, and he will kindly say, "no thanks."  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A freshly slaughtered calf by the side of the road near Mogadishu, Somalia. March 1992.
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  • An old woman shows scavenged lentils in her hand in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Pima farmer Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo and his youngest son, Favien, mop up their breakfast bowls of fried pinto beans with pieces of tortillas made by his wife Estella at their home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo eats breakfast with his two youngest sons at his ranch home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo eats breakfast with his two youngest sons at his ranch home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Workers enjoy a meal in the cafeteria of a construction company building the Zhrong Rong Jasper Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India. On the right is Sitarani Tyaagi, one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests (called Sadhus) that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. (Sitarani Tyaai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80Diets.) Generally he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds.
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  • Buckets of food prepared for worshippers at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, enjoys her lunch at Circusworld Acrobat Center's cafeteria in Shanghai, China. (Featured in 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 June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, enjoys lunch at the Circusworld Acrobat Center's cafeteria in Shanghai, China. (Featured in 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 June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar, a Sudanese refugee at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in 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 November was 2300 kcals. He is 16 years of age; 5 feet 9.5 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Aboubakar escaped over the border from the Darfur region of Sudan into eastern Chad with his mother and siblings, just ahead of the Janjaweed militia that were burning villages of black Sudanese tribes. Like thousands of other refugees, they were accepted into the camp program administrated by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. Their meals are markedly similar to those they ate in their home country; there's just less of it. They eat a grain porridge called aiysh, with a thin soup flavored with a dried vegetable or sometimes a small chunk of dried meat if Abdel Karim's mother has been able to work in a villager's field for a day or two. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • Thousands of pilgrims enjoy free meals of vegetarian curry and dal served by volunteers at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram during the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela, in Ujjain, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar, a Sudanese refugee, with his day's worth of food in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad near the Sudanese border. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 60 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 2300 kcals. He is 16 years of age; 5 feet 9.5 inches tall; and 110 pounds. He escaped over the border from the volatile Darfur region of Sudan into eastern Chad with his mother and siblings, just ahead of the Janjawiid militia that were burning villages of ethnically black African Sudanese. Like thousands of other refugees, they were accepted into the camp program administrated by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Their meals are markedly similar to those they ate in their home country, there's just less of it. They eat a grain porridge called aiysh, with a thin soup flavored with a dried vegetable or sometimes a small chunk of dried meat if Abdel Karim's mother has been able to work in a villager's field for a day or two. MODEL RELEASED.
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