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  • A family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) in the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
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  • An elderly Iranian man on the  street in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Under the main dome of the extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque: Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • The Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in the city of Isfahan, Iran is extravagantly tiled and decorated.  The private mosque is in Imam Square or Naghsh-i Jahan Square.
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  • Inside the extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque: Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • A meal at the Shahzad Restaurant in the city of Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Shoppers go about their business inside a souk (market) in the central Iranian desert city of Yazd, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on earth. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • One of many billboards across Iran memorializing people killed during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Often called martyr billboards, this one on the outskirts of the city of Yazd portrays Mohammed Ali Sharifi after whom a portion of the main highway from Yazd to Na'in highway is named. Yazd, Iran. He had been a resident of the city of Yazd.
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  • In the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, a family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
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  • In the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, a family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
    IRN_061208_071_rwx.jpg
  • Isfahan, Iran. Faith D'Aluisio with an umbrella during a snowfall in front of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). Built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Newly reconstructed Caravanseraye Yazd Hotel, Yazd, Iran.  Also spelled caravansarai, caravanserai and caravansaray, in Farsi. Many of the old caravanserais of Iran are being renovated to attract tourists and to restore the architecture of the country's cultural past. These travelers' inns served as sheltering points for travelers, traders, pilgrims, and solders?as well as their animals, and included storehouses for merchant's goods. The architecture of each is based on the model of limited entrances to the outside to guard against invaders and thieves, and an open courtyard into which most rooms face.
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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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  • Atefeh Fotowat's mother, walks from the kitchen, about to sit down to a dinner with her family in their elegant four-story home in Isfahan, Iran. With her husband, a renowned miniaturist painter, they exemplify the educated Iranian upper middle class in Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, famous for art and Islamic architecture.
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  • A picture of Mohammed Ali Sharifi is displayed on an Iran-Iraq War martyr billboard near Yazd, Iran. A portion of the Yazd to Na'in highway is named after him
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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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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer with her typical day's worth of food at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in December was 2400 kcals. She is 17 years of age; 5 feet, 4.5 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her father, a renowned miniaturist painter, is seated on the couch, along with her mother and her brother, a university student. Together, they exemplify the educated Iranian upper middle class in Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, famous for art and Islamic architecture. Atefeh's relaxed repose and her attire, combining jeans and headscarf, show her ease with foreigners yet respect for tradition. She aspires to turn her fashion designing avocation into a vocation by becoming a designer after college.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The newly reconstructed Caravanseraye Yazd Hotel, in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Caravanseraye is also spelled caravansarai, caravanserai and caravansaray. Many of the old caravanserais of Iran are being renovated to attract tourists and to restore the architecture of the country's cultural past. These travelers inns served as sheltering points for travelers, traders, pilgrims, and soldiers; as well as their animals, and included storehouses for mechant's goods. The architecture of each is based on the model of limited entrances to the outside to guard against invaders and thieves, and an open courtyard into which most rooms face.
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  • All manner of goods can be found in the bazaars of Iran but this is also a meeting place for local residents. Women in black chador (tent) converse in the warren-like covered Yazd Bazaar. Yazd, Iran.
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  • 15-year olds smoke water pipes (hookahs) in a tea shop overlooking Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In the distance, a view of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque)  built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan.
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  • A series of domes, called gonbads, on the roof of the Amir Chakhmaq Mosque complex in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer (second from left in blue jeans), enjoys dinner with her family in their elegant four-story home in Isfahan, Iran.  (Atefeh Fotowat is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Shielded from the sun and strangers' eyes, and wrapped up against the chilly December air, a woman cloaked in a black chador wends her way through the ancient streets in the old market district of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A view of the rooftop of Amir Chakhaq Complex in the city of Yazd, Iran from its highest point at dusk. Windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), seen jutting out of the top of the roof, catch the wind and cool the building. The domes are called gonbads.
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  • Amir Chakhaq Complex. Old city at dusk, Yazd, Iran.
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  • Mohammad Riahi, a part time restaurant manager and taxi driver eats breakfast with his family at their home in the city of Yazd, Iran.  (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He lives with his father and mother, and will until he marries. Even then, he and his bride will be offered the second floor of his parent's home. At the restaurant he eats whatever he feels like eating. At home though, he eats what his mother puts on the tablecloth on the floor in the middle of their living room. Many of their meals are vegetable and starch-based although they have lamb or chicken occasionally, and sheep's head soup on the weekend. As Muslims, they never eat pork.
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, makes dough in his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Covered bazaar in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Painters, each with his own traditional design assignment applies color to bisqueware at Morvarid (Pearl) Pottery Factory, Meybod,  Iran. (Also spelled "Maybod").
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  • Inhabitant of Yazd photographed in the old city, Yazd, Iran.
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, forms dough in his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is displayed at the Zayandeh River bridges in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, makes dough in his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, makes bread at his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Interior of Jameh Mosque in the city of Yazd, Iran. A worker vacuums the carpets.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets in front of the Imam Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, during a December snow storm. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Harjeza Sedighi Fard, 75, seated, and his family sort hand block-printed cotton fabrics in the bazaar at Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Under the main dome of the extravagently tiled and decorated private mosque Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square).  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • A woman carrying an umbrella in the light snow and rain, passes by the beautifully tiled private mosque called Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque.  Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square).  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Harjeza Sedighi Fard, 75, hand block-printing cotton fabric in the bazaar at Isfahan, Iran.
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  • View of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) and its reflection at night in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). Built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Atefeh Fotowat," 17, studies for University entrance examination in Isfahan, Iran. *Atefeh Fotowat is one of the 101 people selected for inclusion in Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio's upcoming book Nutrition 101 (2008) about what people around the world eat in one day's time.
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  • 15-year olds smoke water pipes (hookahs) in a tea shop overlooking Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. In the distance, a view of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque)  built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan.
    IRN_061215_305_rwx.jpg
  • Iranians get together to eat in the public square with fountains and a view of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). Built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Lively weekend family lunches at the Jewel-like Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Ali Ghoyumi, 76 year old weaver working in a cave workshop in Na'in, Iran. He can trace his family back many generations he says, and his family have all been weavers. He is the last of his family that still weaves, as the pay is low.
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  • A woman scrapes a sheepskin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village. She will use the sheepskin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt. Her village is near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran.
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  • A pool of icy water from a qanat that serves  Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. Qanats are underground water distribution systems developed in ancient Persia and designed to provide water over long distances, especially useful in hot, arid climates.
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  • Young girls at a wedding party at the Talar Yazd Restaurant, Yazd, Iran. Traditionally females and males at Muslim weddings celebrate the wedding separately. Photo taken in the women's section of the wedding part by Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Boys warm themselves over an impromptu fire at dusk near the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in Yazd, Iran. Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetary, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Faith Daluisio's profile and an abandoned Zoroastrian tower of silence. Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetary, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence. Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Ghasem Imami, 21, a potter working for several years despite his young age, forms one of many he will create during the course of his workday at Morvarid (Pearl) Pottery Factory, Meybod,  Iran. (Also spelled "Maybod").
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  • View at dusk of the rooftop of Amir Chakhaq Complex from its highest point. Windtowers called badgirs (Farsi), seen jutting out of the top of the roof catch the wind and cool the building. The domes (called gonbads) Yazd, Iran.
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  • Sheep heads in a butcher shop window in the old city, Yazd, Iran. Sheep heads are cooked into soup and eaten regularly, often on the weekends.
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  • A lone woman in black chador (tent) walks along one of the labyrinth of covered streets and alleys that wind through the ancient mud brick city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Mohammed Riahi*, and his father and mother at breakfast on the floor of their spacious home in Yazd, Iran. Mohammed, 30, lives at home with his parents until he marries. Parents are Amin Riahi, 72, and Fakhri Ghanad, 60. *Mohammed is one of the 101 people selected for inclusion in Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio's upcoming book Nutrition 101 (2008) about what people around the world eat in one day's time.
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  • Akbar Zareh, a baker who has worked seven days a week at the job since he was a young boy, in Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The kabob cooking area of the kitchen at the Talar Yazd Restaurant, Yazd, Iran. (sometimes spelled Kabab, Kebab, Kebob, Kebap).
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel at the Jameh Mosque, Yazd, Iran (Also spelled Jamah). MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Caretaker of Jameh Mosque, Yazd, Iran. Jameh (sometimes spelled Jamah) means "Friday.".
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  • Carved wooden door of Jameh Mosque, Yazd, Iran. Jameh (sometimes spelled Jamah) means "Friday.".
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  • Traditional domes (called gonbads on a rooftop at Amir Chakhaq Complex. Yazd, Iran.
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  • A lone woman in chador ('tent') walks in the old city, Yazd, Iran.
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  • Bread bakes inside circular ovens at Akbar Zareh's bakery in the city of Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The son of a baker, Zareh began working full-time at age 10 and regrets that he didn't attend school and learn how to read and write. By working 10 hours a day, every day of the week, he has sent his four children to school so they don't have to toil as hard as he does. The product of his daily labor is something to savor?his fresh, hot loaves are as mouthwatering and tasty as any in the world. After baking in the tandoor clay ovens (at left), most of the rounds of fresh bread are dried and broken into bits.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, award-winning authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at the Jameh Mosque in the city of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The courtyard of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) and its reflection at night in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). The mosque was built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • People walk across the forecourt of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in the city of Isfahan, Iran. The  extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque is in Imam Square, also known as Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan.
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  • A December snowfall in the city of Isfahan, Iran.
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  • The entrance to the extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque: Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • A woman walks across the forecourt of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque during a snow-fall in the city of Esfahan, Iran.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, looks at Paris fashions on the Internet in her bedroom at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in December was 2400 kcals. She is 17; 5'4,5" and 121 pounds. Atefeh's relaxed repose and her attire, combining jeans and headscarf, show her ease with foreigners yet respect for tradition. She aspires to turn her fashion designing avocation into a vocation by becoming a designer after college. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, looks at Paris fashions on the Internet in her bedroom at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer studies for a University entrance examination seated on a Persian carpet on the floor of her bedroom at her home in Isfahan, Iran. (Atefeh Fotowat is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, with her mother in the kitchen of their home in Isfahan, Iran. (Atefeh Fotowat is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Lunch for family and guests at the home of Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer in Isfahan, Iran. (Atefeh Fotowat is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Shoppers walk through a bazaar in Isfahan, Iran, with a poster of Ayatollah Khamenei hanging above.
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  • Passers-by eat snacks in front of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). Built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Diners at table at the Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Diners at table at the Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • A 76-year-old weaver works in a cave workshop in Na'in, Iran, making a camel hair cloak for a cleric. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman scrapes a sheep's skin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. She will use the sheep skin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A goat ventures into the recent snowfall from his owner's home in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan, central Iran.
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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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  • Young girls who are wedding guests sit in the Talar Yazd Restaurant in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Iranian boys sit around a fire near the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence, where their bodies would be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery , although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Tourists visit the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • A Zoroastrian cemetery in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in this nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Pictures of deceased Iranians are displayed on graves in a cemetery in Maybod, Iran.
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  • At left is the open door to Akbar Zareh's bakery is on this dirt street in the city of Yazd, in Yazd province , Iran.  (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Sheep heads are displayed in a butchery window at dusk in the old city of Yazd, Iran. Sheep heads are cooked into soup and eaten regularly, often on the weekends.
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  • Part of a labyrinth of covered streets and alleys that wind through the ancient mud brick city of Yazd, Iran. The grafitti on the wall on the right says "battle-axe".
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  • A view of part of the city of Yazd from Mehr hotel in Yazd, Iran.
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  • Akbar Zareh takes a break from the hectic schedule at his bakery in the province of Yazd, Iran to fix his head scarf. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man operates a henna mill in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Mohammad Riahi's  family prepares to have breakfast at their home in the city of Yazd, Iran.  (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A worker ignites charcoal with a gas torch as other workers make and grill lamb kabobs in the kitchen of Talar Yazd Restaurant in Yazd, Iran.
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  • A decorative pattern carved onto the doors of the Jameh Mosque in Yazd, Iran.
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  • Minibus driver and part-time restaurant manager's Mohammad Riahi's mother in her kitchen in the city of Yazd, Iran. (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Mohammed eats whatever he wants to eat at the restaurant, but at home he eats what his mother puts on the tablecloth on the floor in the middle of their living room. Many of their meals are vegetable and starch-based although they have lamb or chicken occasionally, and sheep's head soup on the weekend. As Muslims, they never eat pork.
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  • Akbar Zareh with his typical day's worth of food at his bakery in the province of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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