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  • 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)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador, specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador, specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador, specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • York Cliffs house, Cape Neddick, Maine
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  • Soho/ Chinatown, London, UK
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  • Hanging dried red peppers. Ausejo, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • A worker paints plastic chickens at Harry Fujita's plastic food factory in Torrance, California. Iwasaki Images of America.
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  • 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.
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Roasting red peppers for preservation and canning. Santo Domingo, Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Live chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae), in a frying pan with vegetable oil, comprise the lunch prepared by Marleni Real, 16, for her father and brother, Koribeni, Peru. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Pauline Woods cooks witchetty grubs in the ashes of a campfire as her daughter watches, outside Alice Springs, Australia. 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.
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  • Meat being grilled in an open pit in a window display to attract hungry pedestrians at La Estancia restaurant. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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  • PER.meb.55.cxxs.Live chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae), in a frying pan with vegetable oil, comprise the lunch prepared by Marleni Real, 16, for her father and brother, Koribeni, Peru.(Man Eating Bugs page 160 Bottom)
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  • Chinese cities are among the world capitals of street food, with stands selling an extraordinary variety of treats. In central Beijing, the Enrong Roasted Meat Store offers "Brazilian roasted meat" (left foreground, the vertical, rotating stack of meat), "fresh-boiled" and "honey-roasted" corn on the cob, "Mongolian grasslands roasted meat," dry, tire-black "stinky tofu," and a rack of skewered scorpions (under salesman's outstretched arm). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 77). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Zuzu Restaurant, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Zuzu serves tapas: small plates of food to accompany a drink. On the bar, with two glasses of sherry, (foreground, clockwise) sizzling prawns, smokey Spanis Pimenton, garlic and thyme; queso frito: pan fried Manchego cheese with roasted poblano chiles; roasted spaghetti squash with apple cider syrup and midnight moon cheese; leblebi: garbanzo bean soup, roasted peppers, poached eggs and harissa; Moroccan barbecue glazed lamb chops.
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  • Zuzu Restaurant, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Zuzu serves tapas: small plates of food to accompany a drink. On the bar, with two glasses of sherry, (foreground, clockwise) queso frito: pan fried Manchego cheese with roasted poblano chiles; roasted spaghetti squash with apple cider syrup and midnight moon cheese; leblebi: garbanzo bean soup, roasted peppers, poached eggs and harissa; Moroccan barbecue glazed lamb chops.
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  • Zuzu Restaurant, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Zuzu serves tapas: small plates of food to accompany a drink. On the bar, with two glasses of sherry, (foreground, clockwise) queso frito: pan fried Manchego cheese with roasted poblano chiles; roasted spaghetti squash with apple cider syrup and midnight moon cheese; leblebi: garbanzo bean soup, roasted peppers, poached eggs and harissa; Moroccan barbecue glazed lamb chops.
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  • An Asmat child eats a roasted sago grub (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), cooked by his father in the jungle swamp where his family is processing its main staple food?sago pulp?from the sago palm tree in southernmost Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grups are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs page 69 Top)
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  • Chaurino Perez Andrate, 17, offers a plate-sized sample of roasted Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula in his village of Sejal, Venezuela. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. After it is roasted for about seven minutes, its charred hairs are rubbed away and the legs pulled off. When we crack them open, there's white meat.(Man Eating Bugs page 175)
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  • Skewered sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), roast over a fire near Komor Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. When roasted on a spit, sago grubs are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs page 69 Bottom)
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) are a popular food all around Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 130)
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  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Dry roasted parch corn and tanyo kuro worms, Chicón, Peru. Asensia says her family always eats worms with parch corn. This is corn that dries completely on the stalk before harvesting. It's heated on the fire until its kernels plump up slightly. This makes a nutritionally sound combination: Corn and worms each lack essential amino acids, but together they provide a balanced meal. (Man Eating Bugs page 151 Inset)
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  • 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)
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  • A steaming sago "tamale" of sorts (actually, the dish is reputed to be without a    name) is made from sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), and sago flour wrapped in a sago palm leaf and roasted over a fire, 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. (pages 72,73)
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  • Rosa Matíaz sells roasted and salted chapulines (grasshoppers, large on left and small on right) and live maguey worms (feeding on apple halves) in Oaxaca's Central Market, Oaxaca, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Villagers in the Asmat extract sago grubs from a rotted sago palm log. Sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), are extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the world's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they 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.
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  • Asmattans (Plipus Manmank's family) undergo the laborious task of sago processing?the goal is the inner starchy pith of the sago palm, which is mixed with water, roasted in dry leaves, and eaten. (There are many other ways to prepare and eat sago flour). Near the Komor Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 68)
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  • Corn roasted over charcoal and sold by the piece near the port in Alexandria, Egypt. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Morning food market. Roasted frogs.
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  • Roasted bats on a stick and sticky rice in Phou Khoun, Laos.
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  • Prossy Kasule in stall no. 68 of the Nakasero Market offer roasted and salted grasshoppers for sale, Kampala, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 148 Bottom)
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere excitedly hunt for termites by hacking into their earthen mound, placing a cloth in front of the entrance, and yanking off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 148,149)
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  • Children of the Ochoas family waiting while their mother, Bernadina, prepares a breakfast treat of roasted waykjuiro worms, Chinchapujio, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 154 Top)
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  • A split tayanca tree reveals a waykjuiro worm. Ocra Katunki, Peru. These worms are either cooked directly on the embers of a fire, or roasted in a frying pan. (Man Eating Bugs page 154 Bottom)
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  • Roasted grasshoppers, chapulines, and mashed avocado on a corn tortilla, Mexico City, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 107 Inset.  See also page 7)
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  • Stink bugs hunted by Dani children will be roasted later for a tasty morning snack in Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • In the Asmat, a wooden bowl holds a collection of freshly harvested sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the world's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they 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.
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  • Dani children show their "bug packages", a collection of twenty or so stink bugs wrapped in leaves to be roasted over a fire and eaten as a tasty protein snack, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.   (pages 80, 81) .
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  • A Dani child hunts for stink bugs that will be roasted later for a tasty morning snack, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Man Eating Bugs page 78, top.
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  • Waitresses at the Roasted Goose restaurant outside Kunming present one of the establishment's specialties, an ant and chicken egg casserole, Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 104 Top)
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  • Several of the stalls in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador specialize in roasted pig. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A woman sells lottery tickets near a vendor offering hot roasted chestnuts for 1 euro, Rome, Italy. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pablo Corral Vega with a platter of roasted cui (guinea pigs) and a bottle of wine at a party at his farm house in Ecuador.
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  • A cook showing roasted cui (guinea pigs) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • In the afternoon, after the women work in the fields, Ermelinda Ayme's sisters often come to visit her at her home in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet; What the World Eats. Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The women gossip, and nurse their babies, snacking on small potatoes and corn that has been parched and roasted. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 115).  The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 106-107 for a family portrait [Image number ECU04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks' worth of food, and the family's detailed food list with total cost.)
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  • Seller Prossy Kasule in stall no. 68 of the Nakasero Market offers roasted and salted grasshoppers for sale, Kampala, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Boys in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. The harvesters pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Rosa Matíaz sells roasted and salted chapulines (grasshoppers) and live maguey worms in Oaxaca's Central Market, Oaxaca, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 112-113)
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  • A cicada on a tree just before it was caught by a young child from Soroba village in the central highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Cicadas are roasted and eaten. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • 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.
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  • An Asmattan holds a collection of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the worlds's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. (Man Eating Bugs page 66)
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  • Martinus Himan, a Dani child with a mouthful of roasted stink bugs, Soroba Village, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (page 7 Bottom Right. See also page 79)
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  • Bessie Liddle savors a roasted witchetty grub for its flavor and its nostalgia (she has not hunted the grubs to the extent she did when she was young, partly due to the proliferation of supermarket foodstuffs and partly due to her age), outside Alice Springs, Central Australia. (Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths).(Man Eating Bugs page 22)
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  • In the afternoon, after the women work in the fields in Tingo, Ecaudor, Ermelinda Ayme's sisters often come to visit. The women gossip, and nurse their babies, snacking on small potatoes and corn that has been parched and roasted. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 115).
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  • Beijingers and travelers alike flock to the specialty restaurants, like Beijing Qianmen Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant 32, Qianmen Street, for their very own Peking duck dinner. These succulent ducks will be served whole and cut tableside after the flurry of activity on the part of several cooks and assistants to prepare them in large roasting ovens. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • In her farmhouse kitchen in the village of Adamka, in central Poland, 93-year-old Maria Kwiatkowska, Borys's grandmother, slices the cheesecake she baked for the traditional family gathering on All Saints Day. After visiting the graves of their relatives in the local cemetery, her children and grandchildren descend on her for a splendid lunch of noodle soup with cabbage and carrots, pork roast stuffed with prunes, pickled pumpkin, a fruit-nut roll, and cheesecake. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 250).(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide, with a day's worth of food on a bingeing day, in her kitchen in Willesden, northwest London, United Kingdom.  (From 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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  • Sunday dinner of baked chicken, potatoes, and frozen veggies prepared by Jill McTighe at her home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom.  (From 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!?  Jill herself is 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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  • In her farmhouse kitchen in the village of Adamka, in central Poland, 93-year-old Maria Kwiatkowska, Borys's grandmother, slices the cheesecake she baked for the traditional family gathering on All Saints Day. After visiting the graves of their relatives in the local cemetery, her children and grandchildren descend on her for a splendid lunch of noodle soup with cabbage and carrots, pork roast stuffed with prunes, pickled pumpkin, a fruit-nut roll, and cheesecake. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 250). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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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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  • Sunday dinner of baked chicken, potatoes, and frozen veggies prepared by Jill McTighe at her home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom.  (From 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!" [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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  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide,  enjoys dinner with her husband Earl Gillespie and their children at their home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom. (From 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!" Jill herself is 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In her farmhouse kitchen in the village of Adamka, in central Poland, 93-year-old Maria Kwiatkowska (Hubert Sobczynski's friend Borys's grandmother) slices the cheesecake she baked for the traditional family gathering on All Saints Day. After visiting the graves of their relatives in the local cemetery, her children and grandchildren descend on her for a splendid lunch of noodle soup with cabbage and carrots, pork roast stuffed with prunes, pickled pumpkin, a fruit-nut roll, and cheesecake. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 250).
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  • A culinary and cultural display of grasshoppers pan-roasted with lemon, salt, and garlic in the grasp of a locally crafted figurine, Oaxaca, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 111)
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  • A live specimen of Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula before being fire-roasted, by Yanomami boys, in Sejal village, near the Orinoco River, Venezuela. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver, with his typical day's worth of food arranged on the hood of his leased cab on Devon Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. (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 September was 2,000 kcals. He is 59 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 240 pounds. Din came to the United States as a young man in search of freedom and opportunity and remains pleased with what he found. He has lived in Chicago for 25 years and has been driving a cab for the past two decades, five to six days a week, 10 hours a day. He knows where all of the best Indian and Pakistani restaurants are throughout Chicago, but prefers his wife's home cooking above all. His favorites? ?Kebabs, chicken tika, or biryani?spicy food,? he says. Tika is dry-roasted marinated meat, and biryani is a rice dish with meat, fish, or vegetables that is highly seasoned with saffron or turmeric. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • A live specimen of Theraphosa leblondi, the world's biggest tarantula before being fire-roasted, by Yanomami boys, in Sejal village, near the Orinoco River, Venezuela. (Man Eating Bugs page 167. See also page 6)
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  • A Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula, caught by Yanomami youths, roasting on the embers of a fire. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. Sejal, Venezuela.(Man Eating Bugs page 174 Top)
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, roasts nuts over a low fire in the cooking hut, in preparation for a White Sunday feast at the Lagavale home in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Jombey Lhakhang roasting barley in a monestary in the Bumthang Valley, Bhutan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A man roasts a goat head in the Breidjing Refugee Camp located in Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border. The camp shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • The main course for a feast at the Lagavale family home in Western Samoa is a freshly killed pig that roasts on a pile of volcanic rocks heated by fire. Also on the fire is the pig's liver and peeled taro root. Published in Material World, page 172. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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