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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits at a market in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, and sells qat leaves in plastic bags.  (Ahmed Ahmed Swaid is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Vendors display bushels of beans for sale at a market in Sanaa, Yemen as a merchant walks by with a glass of tea.
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits at a market in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, and sells qat leaves in plastic bags.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Vendors sell fish at market in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • A vendor prepares a meal for a customer at an open air food stall in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Fishmongers sort fish and other varieties of sea-food at the Daxi Port in Taiwan.
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  • During an afternoon downpour, sellers help shoppers select crabs, shrimp, squid, and mackerel at a market in Daxi harbor, Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interviews a tea seller with the help of a local translator at dawn at the Sadarghat docks on the Buriranga River dock in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rice farmer's wife selling vegetables on the streets of Hanoi. Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, age 51, of rural Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, is a rice farmer with three children who lived hand-to-mouth until wife Vie Thi Phat, 53, moved to Hanoi with her sisters to sell vegetables on a street corner to support their families. Through the years she has managed to come home to the village only once every two months. (Nguyen Van Theo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A vendor prepares a dish at an open air food stall in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Different varieties of fish displayed at the Daxi Port in Taiwan.
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  • Vendors wait for customers in the busy Sonargaon market in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A girl buys a pastry made from fried dough from a vendor in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants., most of whom have limited access to clean water and sanitation.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interviews a tea seller with the help of a local translator at dawn at the Sadarghat docks on the Buriranga River dock in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fruit and vegetable vendors unload produce at the dock for a busy day at the market in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • A vendor arranges vegetables on her stall at the Central Market in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo's wife selling vegetables on the streets of Hanoi. Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, age 51, of rural Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, is a rice farmer with three children who lived hand-to-mouth until wife Vie Thi Phat, 53, moved to Hanoi with her sisters to sell vegetables on a street corner to support their families. Through the years she has managed to come home to the village only once every two months. (Theo Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Vendors prepare food for sale at the LongShan night market in Teipei, Taiwan.
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  • Fishmongers sort fish and other varieties of sea-food at the Daxi Port in Taiwan.
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  • Vendors buy fish from fishermen in Daxi harbor, Taiwan.
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  • A woman sorts fish on the dock at the port of Suao, Taiwan.
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  • A cook prepares a take-out meal of fish and seaweed for a customer as ducks hang over the counter at a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • A vendor sells food at a market stall in the Old City, Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • Vegetables at the Santinagar Market  in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A vendor sells vegetables and other farm produce at the Santinagar  market in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • People walk on a busy street in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • A betel nut vendor takes a drink of water between customers in Varanasi, India. Betel nut is a mildly narcotic seed eaten with lime paste and a green leaf. Over time it decays the teeth and dyes the mouth of the user red. Although its not considered a food, it is a plant item chewed by many all over Asia, and kept in the mouth like chewing tobacco. (From a photographic gallery of street images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131).
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  • A weapons and ammunition vendor at the Bekara market, the main public outdoor market in the South sector of Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Vendors sell fish at a market in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • Vendors prepare food for sale at the LongShan night market in Teipei, Taiwan.
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  • Different varieties of fish displayed at the Daxi Port in Taiwan.
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  • Shoppers at the Brigade Road shopping mall in Bangalore, India.
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  • A vendor sells fish at the sprawling Sonargaon market in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Vendors push trolleys at a market Narok, Kenya, after an afternoon rainstorm.
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  • Venders selling cremation supplies line the many narrow alleys leading to Manikarnika Ghat and Jalasi Ghat. People pass through at all times of the day and night and the cremation site never closes. Colorful shrouds in auspicious colors are sold by the piece. The color red denotes prosperity and hope. Yellow is the color of innocence. The largely polyester fabric doesn't burn very well so is often set aside and burned separately so that it doesn't impede the process of burning the body. The workers hoeing the ashes picks up remnants and wind them around their heads as decoration.
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  • Menghan Sunday market. A "Barefoot" Doctor using herbal healing in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Customers at the check out stand of a supermarket in the city of Reykjavik, Iceland.
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  • Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo's wife Vie Thi Phat, 53, sells vegetables at a wholesale market in Hanoi, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Caged chickens on sale at the Sonargaon market in the town of Sonargaon outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • People shop for vegetables at a market in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Various types of fish are displayed for sale at the LongShan night market in Teipei, Taiwan.
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  • Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi, a Reform rabbi, pays for rugelach pastries at a grocery store near his home in Tzur Hadassah, Israel.  (Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi is featured in 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 October was 3100 Kcals. He is 43 years of age; 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 165 pounds. Ofer's town in the Judean Hills about 15 minutes southwest of Jerusalem is a communal settlement where residents lease land and houses from the state of Israel for a 99-year period. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A vendor sells duck meat at a market stall in Sichuan Province, China.
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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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  • A street vendor sells cigarettes at the Sadarghat dock on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Vendors sell vegetables and fruit outside a marketplace pub in Narok, Kenya.
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  • Vendors sell vegetables and fruit outside a marketplace pub in Narok, Kenya.
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  • Lin Hui-wen, a street food vendor, with her typical day's worth of food at night market in Taipei, Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jewelry market during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world. Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • Outdoor market vendors sell fresh fruit and vegetables. Toulous, France.
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  • Phnom Penn, Cambodia. An intersection in the Middle market.
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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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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits on a rooftop in the old Yemeni city of Sanaa. (Ahmed Ahmed Swaid is featured in 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 3300 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 148 pounds. Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Some women, such as this blanket merchant at the Saturday market in Kouakourou, Mali from the Bozo cultural group, have facial scars, tattoos, and dyes applied. They are considered marks of beauty.
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  • A close up of Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant in the old Yemeni city of Sanaa. (Ahmed Ahmed Swaid is featured in 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 3300 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 148 pounds. Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits on a rooftop in the old Yemeni city of Sanaa with his typical day's worth of food. (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 3300 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 148 pounds. Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports. MODEL RELEASED.
    YEM_080329_127_xxw.jpg
  • 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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  • Mopane worm merchants in the central market of Thohoyandou serve as the intermediaries between the worm wholesalers and individual customers. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Thohoyandou, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Fuzbol (also spelled fusbol) players and merchants outside the Grand Mosque, Djenne, Mali. Africa, Games, Muslim, Islam, Religion, Africa.
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  • The Niger Riverbank in the village of Kouakourou fills with merchants and buyers each week on Saturday market day. Soumana Natomo, a grain trader (far back, at top, in blue) stands in front of his grain storage room. He and his two wives will haul grain out to sell. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project Natomo family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Dan Ulmer and wife, two fossil merchants share their motel room with a variety of large fossils. On the table next to the bed is a leg bone from a dinosaur and the skull of a prehistoric rhinoceros-like animal (Brontotherium sp.). Brontotherium was a genus of mammals that lived in the Lower Oligocene period about 35 million years ago in what is now North America. This photo was taken during the Fossil Fair at Tucson, Arizona, where amateur and commercial fossil collectors gather to trade in the remains of prehistoric animals. Although frowned upon by many academics, amateur collectors frequently find remains of new fossil species or very fine examples of known species. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Mopane worm merchants in the central market of Thohoyandou serve as the intermediaries between the worm wholesalers and individual customers. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Thohoyandou, South Africa. (Page 132,133)
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