Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 478 images found }

Loading ()...

  • Sweet, fried boondi, a spiced chickpea flour confection, is prepared for pilgrims in a camp at an ashram during the Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Every camp has its own large/small kitchen where food is prepared for people residing in that particular camp as well as outsiders who would walk in and out for lunch/dinner. Boondi can be a savory preparation or even sweet. A thin consistency dough is prepared using gram flour, water and spices. This boondi can be made sweet by putting in sugar syrup (prepared separately) and soaked in the syrup. Cardamom, dry fruits may be added in the syrup for flavor. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  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.
    IND_040423_017_xx_xw.jpg
  • Riccardo Casagrande, monk brother priest, oversees the preparation of a meal in the kitchen of the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, near the Spanish Steps. (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood.
    ITA_040614_769_xw.jpg
  • Preparation for lunch at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    CHI_060613_185_xxw.jpg
  • A sumo wrestler who is a member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) does stretching exercises between practice bouts in Nagoya, Japan, in preparation for a tournament.
    Japan_JAP_060629_081_xw.jpg
  • 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.
    IND_040415_012_1_xxw.jpg
  • A vendor prepares a meal for a customer at an open air food stall in Taipei, Taiwan.
    TAI_081228_265_xw.jpg
  • A cook prepares bone marrow at El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain.
    SPA_070629_126_xw.jpg
  • A cook prepares bone marrow at El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain.
    SPA_070629_118_xw.jpg
  • Cooks prepare dumplings to be steamed at a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan.
    TAI_081226_289_xw.jpg
  • 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.
    TAI_081226_341_xw.jpg
  • Cooks prepare dumplings to be steamed at a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan.
    TAI_081226_251_xw.jpg
  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm,  and son, Malte Erik at the stove. Preparing white asparagus for supper. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
    GER_130612_254_x.jpg
  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm,  and son, Malte Erik at the stove. Preparing white asparagus for supper. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
    GER_130612_254_x.jpg
  • Vendors prepare food for sale at the LongShan night market in Teipei, Taiwan.
    TAI_081228_284_xw.jpg
  • Vendors prepare food for sale at the LongShan night market in Teipei, Taiwan.
    TAI_081228_286_xw.jpg
  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany preparing salad dressing for supper in her kitchen. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
    GER_130612_268_x.jpg
  • 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.)
    IND_040415_062_xw.jpg
  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm. Preparing white asparagus. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
    GER_130612_238_x.jpg
  • Preparing food for desert museum animals. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, outside Tucson. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
    USA_AZ_15_xs.jpg
  • Pulin Sasmal, a cook for Millie Mitra's family in Bangalore, India, prepares a meal while his daughter watches. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
    IND_081205_050_xxw.jpg
  • Two villagers prepare a dish made of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), and sago flour wrapped in sago palm leaves. The packets are then roasted in the fire to prepare for eating, in Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The resulting dish is like a cooked pastry, with a chewy, slightly sweet crust and the grubs taste like fishy bacon. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Ido_meb_107_xs.jpg
  • Rufina Dochan and Udelia Toronam prepare a dish which Rufina claims has no name, but is made of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), and sago flour wrapped in sago palm leaves. The packets are then roasted in the fire to prepare for eating, Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The resulting dish is like a cooked pastry, with a chewy, slightly sweet crust and the grubs taste like fishy bacon. (Page 70,71)
    IDO_meb_76_xxs.jpg
  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany preparing salad dressing for supper in her kitchen. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
    GER_130612_268_x.jpg
  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm. Preparing white asparagus. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
    GER_130612_238_x.jpg
  • Flames from a propane stove engulf a small pot of chiles in oil as rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanasi, India. (Muna Kailash is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    IND_040415_142_xw.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_GoFish_060809_0925_rwx.jpg
  • 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.
    CHI_060613_097_xw.jpg
  • Fresh mussel dish with lemon grass and coconut milk prepared by chef Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley.
    USA_GoFish_060809_504_rwx.jpg
  • USA_GoFish_060809_499_rwx.tif Fresh mussel dish with lemon grass and coconut milk prepared by chef Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley.
    USA_GoFish_060809_499_rwx.jpg
  • Fresh mussel dish with lemon grass and coconut milk prepared by chef Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley.
    USA_GoFish_060809_494_rwx.jpg
  • Fresh mussel dish with lemon grass and coconut milk prepared by chef Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley.
    USA_GoFish_060809_477_rwx.jpg
  • Fresh squid dish prepared by Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley, CA
    USA_GoFish_060809_424_rwx.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_GoFish_060809_0986_rwx.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_GoFish_060809_0855_rwx.jpg
  • 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..
    USA_GoFish_060809_0823_rwx.jpg
  • 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..
    USA_GoFish_060809_0811_rwx.jpg
  • Riders and stable boys prepare camels for an early morning training workout at the racetrack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
    DUB_030522_031_x.jpg
  • A chef preparing suckling pig in a traditional restaurant in Toledo, Spain.
    SPA_180_xs.jpg
  • Kousuke Tominaga eats fresh mussels with lemon grass and coconut milk prepared by chef Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_GoFish_060809_500_rw_xxw.jpg
  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, prepares to practice balancing on one hand at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Cao Xiaoli 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 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
    CHI_060606_392_xw.jpg
  • Vendan women prepare the termites they have collected with their termite collecting sticks from a large termite mound near their village of Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. They are cleaning the termites by rinsing them in water, and then they fry them in oil and eat them with cornmeal porridge called mielie mielie. Fried termites are nutty and crunchy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Saf_meb_36_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_GoFish_060809_700.jpg
  • Fresh mussel dish with lemon grass and coconut milk prepared by chef Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley.
    USA_GoFish_060809_500_rwx.jpg
  • Fresh squid dish prepared by Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley, CA
    USA_GoFish_060809_443_rwx.jpg
  • Fresh squid dish prepared by Cindy Pawlcyn for her Go Fish restaurant in the Napa Valley, CA
    USA_GoFish_060809_422_rwx.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_GoFish_060809_0979_rwx.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_GoFish_060809_0972_rwx.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_GoFish_060809_0932_rwx.jpg
  • 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..
    USA_GoFish_060809_0913_rwx.jpg
  • Lightning research. Scientists prepare a rocket designed to fly into a thunderstorm and trigger a bolt of lightning. The rocket trails a fine copper wire, providing an easy path for the lightning to reach Earth. This allows the scientists to measure the current, voltage and other parameters of the lightning bolts. To ensure safety, the rocket is launched by blowing through a tube to activate a pneumatic switch. This prevents the operator from making accidental electrical contact with the lightning. Photographed at Mount Baldy, New Mexico USA.
    USA_SCI_RCKT_07_xs.jpg
  • Amuloke Walelo and her husband prepare the day's vegetables with the blood-red juice of the buah merah fruit, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82,83)
    IDO_meb_29A_cxxs.jpg
  • One of the chefs of the "Elegant Good Smell Restaurant" prepares scorpion soup and stir-fried scorpions in woks, Louyang, China.(Man Eating Bugs page 98)
    CHI_meb_92_cxxs.jpg
  • Kitty Miller prepares witchetty grubs by cooking them in the hot ashes at the edge of the campfire outside Alice Springs in Central Australia. Grubs are high in protein and were a traditional meal of the areas' Aboriginal peoples?all but forgotten in the face of modern supermarket foodstuffs. Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths. The large white worms live in tunnels in the ground where they feed on sap from the roots of a species of Acacia, commonly known as Wichetty Bush. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Aus_meb_8_xs.jpg
  • Kitty Miller prepares extracts a Witchetty grub from the root of a Witchetty Bush in the outback outside of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Grubs are high in protein and were a traditional meal of the areas' Aboriginal peoples (all but forgotten in the face of modern supermarket foodstuffs). Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths. The large white worms live in tunnels in the ground where they feed on sap from the roots of a species of Acacia, commonly known as Wichetty Bush. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Aus_meb_5_xs.jpg
  • Preparing a chapel in the Cathedral for Holy Week. Salamanca, Spain during Semana Santa (Holy Week).
    SPA_070407_093_rwx.jpg
  • Honey, drizzled on a dense slice of dark sour rye bread. Beekeeper Aivars Radzins, occasionally receives bread in exchange for the honey he produces in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat,; Around the World in 80 Diets.) The loaf comes wrapped in maple leaves baked into the crust.
    LAT_081018_061_xxw.jpg
  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant on the Costa Brava in northeastern Spain, tastes throughout the afternoon and evening as he oversees the chefs at his world-famous eatery. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    SPA_070629_106_xxw.jpg
  • Different varieties of fish displayed at the Daxi Port in Taiwan.
    TAI_081227_229_xw.jpg
  • The Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner, cooking at her home in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. At the age of three, she started her career in her father's bakery, helping her parents with simple chores like sorting nuts. Her career plan is to return to this bakery, which has been in the family for four generations, in a few years. She will remodel the old premises slightly to allow customers the opportunity to watch the baking process, but plans to keep the old traditions of her forebears alive.   MODEL RELEASED.
    GER_080319_025_x.jpg
  • 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.)
    TAI_081227_176_xxw.jpg
  • The daughter-in-law of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo cuts up pork for lunch at their shared homestead in Tho Quang village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Nguyen Van Theo and his family still eat traditional Vietnamese foods.
    VIE_081220_032_xw.jpg
  • Fishmongers sort fish and other varieties of sea-food at the Daxi Port in Taiwan.
    TAI_081227_176_xw.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann cutting bread in her kitchen for her sons' snacks after school in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_031_x.jpg
  • The daughter-in-law of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo cooks lunch at their shared homestead in Tho Quang village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Nguyen Van Theo and his family still eat traditional Vietnamese foods.
    VIE_081220_308_xw.jpg
  • The daughter-in-law of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo cooks pork at their shared homestead in Tho Quang village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Nguyen Van Theo and his family still eat traditional Vietnamese foods.
    VIE_081220_288_xw.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann cutting bread in her kitchen for her sons' snacks after school in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_031_x.jpg
  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz (right), a master baker and confectioner at work as a baker and pastry chef at Bastians Restaurant and bakery in Cologne, Germany. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds.
    GER_080318_076_xxw.jpg
  • Dani children unwrap their roasted "bug packages", a collection of twenty or so stink bugs wrapped in leaves and set on the edge of a fire to roast as a small snack, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The kids also roast spiders, or mulikaks, on the glowing embers and eat them. (Man Eating Bugs page 78 Bottom)
    IDO_meb_39_cxxs.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann with snacks in her kitchen for her sons and daughter after school in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_066_x.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann with snacks in her kitchen for her sons and daughter after school in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_057_x.jpg
  • Cindy Pawlcyn cooking at home in the Napa Valley. St. Helena, CA
    USA_GoFish_060809_279_rwx.jpg
  • Cindy Pawlcyn cooking at home in the Napa Valley. St. Helena, CA
    USA_GoFish_060809_202_rwx.jpg
  • Aivars  Radzins, a forester and beekeeper, slices a loaf of bread at his home in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (Aivars Radzins is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    LAT_081018_049_xw.jpg
  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide, bastes chicken for Sunday dinner in her kitchen 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.  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.]
    GBR_050918_063_xw.jpg
  • Sausages made by master butcher Marcus Dirr with his father Peter Dirr, chief butcher, at his shop in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow.  MODEL RELEASED.
    GER_080313_298_xxw.jpg
  • Marcus Dirr (left), a master butcher, makes sausages at his shop in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, while his father Peter Dirr, a chief butcher, operates the controls of a mixer. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in March was 4600 kcals. He is 43 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 160 pounds. The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow. MODEL RELEASED.
    GER_080313_088_xxw.jpg
  • Shahnaz Hossain Begum (left) shares cooking space with one of her tenants at her home in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food for a typical day in December was 2000 kcals. She is 38; 5' 2" and 130 pounds. This mother of four was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home in her village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka. She and her tenants share a companionable outdoor cooking space and all largely cook traditional Bangladeshi foods such as dahl, ruti (also spelled roti), and vegetable curries. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income.
    BAN_081213_157_xxw.jpg
  • 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.
    CHI_060613_724_xw.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann with snacks in her kitchen for her sons and daughter after school in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_066_x.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann with snacks in her kitchen for her sons and daughter after school in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_057_x.jpg
  • Aivars  Radzins, a forester and beekeeper, slices a loaf of bread at his home in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (Aivars Radzins is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    LAT_081018_048_xw.jpg
  • A woman sells wursts at a stand in the central square at  Munsterplatz in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
    GER_080315_345_xw.jpg
  • Pima farmer Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo's wife Esthela makes tortillas by hand, cooking them on top of the wood stove, which also serves as a heat source during chilly Sierra Madre mountain winters a their home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Her two youngest sons wait for breakfast, while her oldest son helps José with the milking. Practically self-sufficient, the family does buy some basic food and supplies, like powdered milk, at Disconsa, one of a network of government-subsidized stores catering to rural communities, in the town of Maycoba, six miles from their home. They grow their own corn and grind it, but Esthela keeps bags of masa flour on her pantry shelf for making tortillas. MODEL RELEASED.
    MEX_080822_077_xxw.jpg
  • Fried tilapia from Lake Victoria is ready for customers at Roseline Amondi's market stall in the Kibera Slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    KEN_090302_374_xxw.jpg
  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide, bastes chicken for Sunday dinner in her kitchen 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.  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.]
    GBR_050918_065_xxw.jpg
  • A troupe tries out its cycling act at the Shanghai Circus World, Shanghai, China, where acrobat Xiaoli Cao practices. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    CHI_060605_036_xxw.jpg
  • Bike messengers attend an early morning meeting at T-Serv, a parcel and letter delivery service in Tokyo, Japan, where bike messenger Jun Yajima (with cap and T-serv green striped shirt) works. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) .
    Japan_JAP_060704_072_xw.jpg
  • Skewered sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), roast over a fire in the longhouse in Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grubs are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Ido_meb_74_xs.jpg
  • Mother and son in the small kitchen of their living space. The family is living in a large tomb in the city of the dead in Cairo, Egypt. They are acting as caretakers.
    EGY_030601_154_x.jpg
  • A naga covered in ash stirs a large kettle of food for pilgrims at Kumbh Mela.  Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
    IND_097_xs.jpg
  • Cindy Pawlcyn cooking at home in the Napa Valley. St. Helena, CA
    USA_GoFish_060809_264_rwx.jpg
  • Bounty Hunter Restaurant and Bar, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Barbecued, smoked ribs.
    USA_060122_26_rwx.jpg
  • Martin Yan, chef, at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine, and the Arts. Martin Yan gave a cooking demonstration of 'fire cracker chicken' at Copia's Meyer Food Forum cooking amphitheater. Napa, California. Napa Valley..
    USA_060106_Yan24_rwx.jpg
  • 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.
    IRN_061210_350_rwx.jpg
  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) go through practice routines at their stable in Tokyo, Japan. Younger, smaller, and less experienced sumo wrestlers go through exercises emphasizing team unity at the end of a grueling morning practice. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    Japan_JAP_060601_326_xxw.jpg
  • Tarts topped with frozen berries at Bastian's Restaurant and Bakery in Cologne, Germany, where Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz works as a baker and pastry chef. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    GER_080318_111_xxw.jpg
  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken 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.
    CHI_060613_768_xxw.jpg
  • A wrestler with the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) during practice before a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_060629_296_xw.jpg
  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) practicing in Nagoya, Japan before a tournament.
    Japan_JAP_060628_039_xw.jpg
  • 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.
    Japan_JAP_060601_340_xw.jpg
Next

Peter Menzel Photography

  • Home
  • Legal & Copyright
  • About Us
  • Image Archive
  • Search the Archive
  • Exhibit List
  • Lecture List
  • Agencies
  • Contact Us: Licensing & Inquiries