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  • Woman selling shrimp at the Mercado de Abastos Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Shrimp vendor on market day in Solola, Guatemala.
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  • Lobsterman Samuel Tucker's breakfast of fresh shrimp and eggs. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 3,800 kcals. He is 50; 6 feet 1 and 1/2 inches and 179 pounds.
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  • Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes Eating at an all you can eat seafood buffet in Newport News, Virginia, in preparation for a contest. He died at 44 in December 2008. (Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes eating at an all you can eat seafood buffet in Newport News, Virginia, in preparation for a contest. He died at 44 in December 2008. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lunch in El Cloistro Restaurant, Buenos Aires
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  • Lunch in El Cloistro Restaurant, Buenos Aires
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  • Covent Garden, London, UK. Paella.
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  • Plastic food display of sushi in a wholesale shop. Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Carson 'Collard Green' Hughes Eating at a an all you can eat seafood buffet in Newport News, Virginia, in preparation for a contest. He died at 44 in December 2008. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A worker adds plastic resin to a dessert of plastic food at the factory of Iwasaki Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • During an afternoon downpour, sellers help shoppers select crabs, shrimp, squid, and mackerel at a market in Daxi harbor, Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A fishing boat uses bright lights and nets to catch shrimp at night near the port of Longdong, on Taiwan's northeast coast. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Just south of Longdong, the fish market at Daxi harbor has both a wholesale and a retail market.
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  • Fried bamboo larva on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs" says Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Eating shrimp and other tapas in the Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain.
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  • A culinary and aesthetic exhibition (on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions) of fried bamboo worms, which are actually not worms but the larval stage of a moth that lives in bamboo trees. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs," Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Man Eating Bugs page s 42,43)
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  • Australia's population is concentrated on the coasts, which means that seafood is a major part of most people's diets; especially shrimp and spiny lobster (shown here being harvested off Cape Otway, near Melbourne). The Molloys, of Brisbane, Australia, are an exception. Although John and Sean love seafood, Em is skeptical and Natalie can't abide it. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 32).
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Published in Material World page 85. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • Khuenkaew family meal of rice, cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, and shrimp-paste. The family sits on the floor to eat dinner. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Published in Material World, page 177.
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