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  • Hand pollinating geranium flowers in a greenhouse: Lompoc, California. USA.
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  • House with hundreds of flowers in front, Berceo, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Bodegas Muga in the town of Haro, Rioja, Spain. As are many of the older wineries of Spain, Bodegas Muga is family-owned and family-run since its establishment in 1932 by the father of its current president, Isaac Muga.
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  • Window sill in Pienza, Italy. (between Rome and Florence, near Montepulciano).
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  • A fountain surrounded by flowers in the cloisters of the gothic cathedral in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Aerial of a section of the plaza by the cathedral in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • A meal of chanko nabe prepared by sumo wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) while practicing for a wrestling tournament in Nagoya, Japan. Sumos cook and eat chanko nabe, a stew pot of vegetable and meat or fish, at nearly every meal. It  is eaten with copious amounts of rice and numerous side dishes.
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  • The mother and sister-in-law of Kibet Serem chat while a pot of milk heats over a fire to make yogurt in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Kibet looks after a tea plantation that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy and 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. Their staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Six-year-old Nyima Dun Drup takes a turn at the butter churn as Phurba puts a pot of milk on the fire and Karsal talks to a neighbor at the Tibetan nomadic family's home in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Michael Rae and his partner April Smith in suburban Philadelphia, PA, preparing dinner in the kitchen. (Michael Rae is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Both Michael and April adhere to a severe caloric restriction diet, eating less than 2,000 calories a day in the hopes that the diet will increase longevity. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant, tastes meat in the kitchen area of the restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in northern Spain.   (Ferran Adria is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Pho, noodle soup, is ladled into a  bowl at a restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Painters apply color to bisqueware at Morvarid (Pearl) pottery Factory, Meybod (Also spelled "Maybod"), Iran. Each of the painters applies an assigned traditional design.
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  • Katherine Navas cooks dinner at home for friday night dinner with extended family, Caracas, Venezuela. (Katherine Navas is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Anne Glad Fredricksen, 45, as she prepares the evening meal after work in their farmhouse kitchen. Model-Released.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Anne Glad Fredricksen, 45, as she prepares the evening meal after work in their farmhouse kitchen. Model-Released.
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  • A woman walks in an apartment courtyard, near the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • The dung-fired hearth in Karsal's kitchen at their home in the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The nomadic herder's family uses dung collected from the yak and dri pastures for cooking and keeping their house warm.
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  • Maria Natercia Lopes-Furtado  and  Melody, in the kitchen of their home in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Menzel D'Aluisio guest house, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Menzel D'Aluisio guest house, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Canyon Ranch, Lennox, MA. Health and wellness spa in the Berkshires
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Jungle logging camp near Sawa Village in the Asmat swamp of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Incense burns in Macau's Temple of Kun Iam Tong (goddess of mercy)
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  • A cook dishes up steaming noodles in a streetside shop in Kunming, China.
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto talks on the phone while his wife prepares food at his new home in Sacaton, Arizona. (Louie Soto is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Soto built a new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community.
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  • Lobsterman and fish buyer Sam Tucker fries pancakes at his home on Great Diamond Island, Maine. (Samuel Tucker is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in northern Spain, eats with his colleagues in the restaurant's staff area. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Staff at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas,  on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain, during the afternoon staff meal.
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  • Staff at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas,  on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain, during the afternoon staff meal.
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain tastes  food in the restaurant's kitchen. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain taste tests food in the restaurant's kitchen. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The mother of Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, prepares food in the small kitchen at the home she shares with her son in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shashi loves his mother's traditional southern Indian food at home, but when he's at work his dinner options are KFC and Beijing Bites, the fast-food restaurants on the ground floor of the high-rise where he works, located on the edge of Bangalore. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kibet Serem, pours morning tea for his father and guests.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  At age 25, 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.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, cooks  at her home in a Maasai village compound near Narok, Kenya.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Sheep's head soup for sale in the colorful weekly market, Zumbagua, Ecuador (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131)
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120121_117_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Simon Witham, lobster fisherman near Dinosaur Cove at Cape Otway, Victoria, Australia. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Incense burns in Macau's Temple of Kun Iam Tong (goddess of mercy)
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  • A child in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A child in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain tastes food in the restaurant's kitchen. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A woman prepares sheep's head soup for sale in the colorful weekly market at Zumbagua in Ecuador.
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  • Dinner at Charles Mann and Ray Kinoshita's house in Amherst, MA
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  • Colonial neighborhood barred window with flowers and a red wall in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Antique dealer and son in front of his shop in Seville, Spain.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy at the kitchen table with his family at their home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanasi, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga with tools of their trades that will be used for sushi and fish prepartion in their new Napa Valley restaurant called Go Fish. Shot in Cindy's home kitchen in St. Helena, CA.
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  • Sushi chef Ken Tominaga of Hana and Go Fish restaurants prepares sushi at the home of Go Fish partner and chef Cindy Pawlcyn in the Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Sushi chef Ken Tominaga of Hana and Go Fish restaurants prepares sushi at the home of Go Fish partner and chef Cindy Pawlcyn in the Napa Valley, CA..
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  • Day after Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Julia's Kitchen Restaurant at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts, Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Executive Chef Victor Scargle at Julia's Kitchen Restaurant at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts, Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Nova Scotia, Canada..Cape Sable Island, Clark's Harbor. Lobster traps in silhouette on the dock with setting sun.
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  • Cape Sable Island, Clark's Harbor. Lobster traps in silhouette, on the dock with setting sun. Nova Scotia, Canada.
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  • A mother in Dubai cooks her family's lunch in their new kitchen building that is separate from the rest of the house. Her hands are adorned with henna in honor of the wedding she will attend this afternoon. She is covered from head to toe in her home today, as she is when out in public because she is entertaining guests from outside her family. As an indigenous citizen of the United Arab Emirates her family is entitled to a substantial subsidy from the government and jobs for the males in the household. Their high standard of living is a far cry from her parents' life as nomadic Bedouin camel herders of the desert. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (From a photographic gallery of images of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 54) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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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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  • Ceramic museum display with wooden spoons in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • The Itanoni Tortilleria ("Gourmet Tortillas") in Oaxaca, Mexico sells handmade tortillas from native corn that it contracts local growers to produce. In the back room, workers wash dried corn after cooking it. It is then ground into a moist flour that is pressed into tortillas and cooked on clay oven tops, called "comals".
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  • Molino de Flores National Park, Mexico. Laura Meruz and Raul Ortiz grow their own corn and make cheese quesadillas with blue corn tortillas. Near Mexico City.
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  • Molino de Flores. National park, Mexico. At Mirador Restaraunt in El Molino de Flores National Park near Mexico city, Virginia Meras, the wife of the owner grills hand made blue corn tortillas full of cheese and squash blossom flowers for weekend clientele. Near Mexico City.
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Two women prepare a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Colonial neighborhood with red pickup truck in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • View of Taxco, a colonial silver mining hill town in Mexico, with a patio in the foreground.
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  • A chef preparing suckling pig in a traditional restaurant in Toledo, Spain.
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  • Street scene with steps and flowers in Rivello, Italy, on the Basilicata Coast.
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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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  • 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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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy eats dinner with his family in the kitchen of their home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Art restorer  Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy (center)  enjoys supper with his family in their house, near on Lake Ladoga, in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53; 6a feet two inches and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says.
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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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  • Bathing in the Shipra River during 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.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers. 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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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • Sushi chef Ken Tominaga of Hana and Go Fish restaurants prepares sushi at the home of Go Fish partner and chef Cindy Pawlcyn in the Napa Valley, CA..
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  • Executive Chef Victor Scargle at Julia's Kitchen Restaurant at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts, Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Winemaker Isaac Muga, of Bodegas Muga in Haro, operates the winery started by his father, D. Isaac Muga Caño in 1932. Haro, Rioja, Spain. Bodegas Muga in the town of Haro, Rioja, Spain. As are many of the older wineries of Spain, Bodegas Muga is family-owned and family-run since its establishment in 1932 by the father of its current president, Isaac Muga.
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  • Closeup of a traditional blue flower design being applied to a bisqueware vase at Morvarid (Pearl) Pottery Factory, Meybod,  Iran. (Also spelled "Maybod"). Painters there each has his own design assignment, often working with others applying their own elements on a single piece.
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  • The small kitchen of a family living in a large tomb in the city of the dead in Cairo, Egypt. They are acting as caretakers.
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera adds turmeric to dal that she cooked in a pressure cooker as she prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanas, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A girl sits by a fire in a slum settlement near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A butcher prepares meat for sale at a butchery in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • A Vendan woman stirs a pot of grasshoppers that the kids have just collected. She cooks the de-winged grasshoppers in oil and they are eaten with cornmeal porridge. Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 137B)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Preparing to host visitors in their home in Bhutan, Sangay pours a pot of tea into a thermos. Her half-sister Bangam holds the sieve. Meanwhile, Namgay, the family patriarch, waits patiently for a cup. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 276). 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting outside her UNHCR donated tent with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane serves a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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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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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan.  Sumos cook and eat chanko nabe, a stew pot of vegetable and meat or fish, at nearly every meal. It  is eaten with copious amounts of rice and numerous side dishes. Miyabiyama eats now to maintain his weight rather than to gain it, unlike the younger less gargantuan wrestlers in his stable who are eating a lot to pack on weight.
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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 small pot of Caterpillar Fungus Soup with Black Chicken, prepared by the Wine Forest restaurant costs 50 yuan, or $6.25 U.S.; the relatively high cost, especially considering that the soup contains only three or four of the fungi, originated from its medicinal value for the treatment of asthma, colds, jaundice, and tuberculosis. Guangzhou, China. The bamboo sticks are marked with the names of dishes available at the restaurant and act as a rustic menu. (Man Eating Bugs page 100,101)
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  • Fatoumata Toure stirs a pot of porridge on the roof of her home in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting before the fire with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane stirs a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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