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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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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is 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 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Riverboat passengers relax in a web of hammocks on the Solimoes River upstream from Manacapuru, Brazil.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, oversees the cooking of lunch for guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is 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 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • A Maasai woman at a weekly market in Oldorko Maasai village,  several hours from Narok, Kenya. The jewelery worn by the Maasai is symbolic through its colors and patterns.
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  • Vendors push trolleys at a market Narok, Kenya, after an afternoon rainstorm.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief with her day's worth of food outside her house in a Maasai village compound near Narok, Kenya. (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 January was 800 kcals. She is 38 years of  age: 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Noolkisaruni has her own house for sleeping and a windowless cooking house with earth and dung chinked into the walls. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family business: cattle and goats. She is photographed here with her day's worth of food: largely maize meal and milk. The fallen tree on which her food rests was knocked down by a marauding wild elephant. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia, a rancher's wife who lives in riverside house near the town of Caviana in Amazonas, Brazil. (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 the month of November was 3400.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  She and her husband, Francisco live outside the village of Caviana with three of their four grandchildren in a house built by his grandfather. They raise cattle to earn income (and sometimes a sheep or two to eat themselves) but generally they rely on their daily catch of fish, and eggs from their chickens, for animal protein. They harvest fruit and Brazil nuts on their property and buy rice, pasta, and cornmeal from a store in Caviana. They also purchase Solange's favorite soft drink made from guarana (a highly caffeinated berry indigenous to the country).  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman sells wursts at a stand in the central square at  Munsterplatz in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide, at her home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom.  (Jill McTighe is 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 "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average. Jill is  31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family. "Do I cook? Yes, but not cakes. I roast. Nothing ever, ever is fat-fried!" MODEL RELEASED. [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is 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 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Children queue for water at a communal watering point in the Kibera slum, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's largest slum, with more than 1 million inhabitants.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, at her home in a Maasai compound village near Narouk, Kenya. Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Chen Zhen, a university student, with her typical day's worth of food on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in June was 2600 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 106 pounds.  Although she doesn't care for noodles or rice, a special rice roll is her favorite snack: black glutinous rice wrapped around youtiao (fried bread), pickled vegetables, mustard greens, and flosslike threads of dried pork. Zhen and her friends eat at KFC about three times a week, something they couldn't afford without the company's coupons. Meanwhile, her father and grandparents, who live in a tiny apartment in northeast Shanghai, go without meat during the week so they can afford to share a special meal with Zhen on her weekend visits.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Floyd Zaiger, with two women workers on ladders, emasculate blossoms in the Zaiger's greenhouse. Flower petals and buds are removed to leave the pistol exposed, which is then hand-pollinated with brushes or cotton swabs. Blossoms are collected by hand from specific trees in the orchards and pollen is extracted from them by cutting the flower up with small scissors and sifting the parts. The pollen goes into a small plastic bottle that is numbered and stored in ice chests. Many trees are grown in barrels that are moved into the greenhouse to be worked on or to speed up or slow down pollination and development. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. -MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • UTourists feed a giraffe at Molokai Ranch Wildlife Park, Hawaii. USA. The giraffe has walked up to the van full of tourists and is being fed by one of them.
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  • Women with an umbrella looks at the bronze front doors of the Duomo in Siena, Italy.
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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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  • A vendor fries fish for sale in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants, the majority of whom have no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Kibet Serems' grandmother who lives near their farm by herself in a small house.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibet, who is 25 years old, cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it.
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  • Kibet Serem and his sister-in-law Emily milk cows on their small tea plantation in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • Kibet Serem's sister-in-law Emily dishes up pinto beans and rice as Kibet Serem's mother, Nancy, watches a Kipsigis music video. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Marble Moahi, a mother living with HIV/AIDS, in the family kitchen in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana with her typical day's worth of food and antiretroviral medications.  (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 March was 900 kcals. She is 32 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 92 pounds.  Despite a decline in new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, this region of the world remains the most heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS. . MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bounty Hunter Restaurant and Bar, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Waitress Heather Renfrow with barbecued ribs with cole slaw. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Workers buy food from a company cafeteria at a construction site in Shanghai, China. 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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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, rinses spoons in a cooking pot as her herder waits for his breakfast of cornmeal porridge, "ugali". and sweet hot tea before setting off for the day to graze the family's cattle on the southern Kenyan plain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Folk dancing during the patron saint festival in Olite, Navarra, Spain.
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  • Weimar, East Germany.
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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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  • Replicas of the baby Jesus on sale at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Mexico City. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Elderly lady in black resting on a bench on a Sunday afternoon in Lazienki Park, Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Outside the Quiapo Market in the Philippines, people pick through the trash discarded from the early-morning wholesale market. Inside, the covered market is a tumult of activity and offers an extraordinary variety of goods, ranging from food, clothing, consumer electronics, and patent medicines to religious images and even prayers (busy people can outsource their prayers to the Quiapo Church's "prayer ladies"). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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