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  • Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • McDonald's fast food chain in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • Taitung, 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.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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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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  • Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
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  • Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • A newer common sight is the long line of younger or newly affluent urbanites ending at the cash register of the biggest Western fast-food chain in China; their choice, on the left, is the "Leisurely Fried Wings Meal." More than a hundred KFC outlets operate in Beijing alone. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 78). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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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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  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
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  • Indian lunch raita with chickpeas and a tray of spices in the kitchen of the  Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left),  a soldier at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, receives breakfast at the mess tent. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Soldiers get their meals from an officers' mess at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left),  a soldier at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, getting breakfast at the mess tent. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in 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 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds.
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  • Lunch time for visitors at the Mall of America.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Mall of America is the largest among some 50,000 shopping malls in the United States. In addition to a huge amusement park, it houses over 500 stores, 26 fast-food outlets, 37 specialty food stores, and 19 sit-down restaurants, and employs more than 11,000 year-round employees. In excess of 40 million people visit the mall annually, and more than half a billion have visited since it opened in 1992.
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  • Thinly sliced lamb chops called chuletas are cooked over embers from burning grape vines at the annual wine harvest festival in Logroño, Rioja, Spain.
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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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  • Slow Food celebration at Ft. Mason, San Francisco
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Gemma Sastre and  Eino Brand at a café having cafes con leche in Valencia, Spain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Waitstaff prepare meals for patrons at the world's highest revolving restaurant, located at the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. The award-winning restaurant has awe-inspiring views and, for a tourist destination, surprisingly excellent food. The pricey entrance and elevator fee of about $25 per person is waived if you eat at the restaurant, making it cheaper to have lunch than to just see the sights. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rice farmer Theo Nguyen Van enjoys a meal with his family at his  home in Tho Quang Village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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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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  • Dinner at Carl Doumani's, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Çinar family share a breakfast of tea, tomatoes, spiced meat, bread, feta cheese, olives, sugar, butter, and rose jam. The eat sitting on the floor of their living room in their small house in Golden Horn area, Istanbul, Turkey. Food, Meal..
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Vendors sell sweets and pastries on the narrow streets of the old souk in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
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  • Ted Sikorski, an unemployed resident of the streets of Manhattan  with his typical day's worth of food at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in June was 2,300 kcals. He 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 168 pounds. Although Ted spends many hours a day walking, he admits to having to watch his weight, adding that many of his ?residentially challenged? friends have the same problem. Over 1 million low-income residents use more than 1,200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City. Some of the soup kitchens offer other benefits, such as showers, counseling, and entertainment. As in most big U.S. cities, it's easier to find a free meal in New York City than a place to sleep. Each night, more than 39,000 people sleep in the city's municipal shelter system, while thousands more sleep on the street. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. In his backyard after a weekend lunch, Nasrullah Qureshi, 51, serves chai tea to his father-in-law, U.S. Sakhi, 74. Model-Released.
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  • Safiye Çinar and her daughter-in-law Feriye prepare breakfast for their families in Feriye's downstairs apartment in the house they share in the Golden Horn (or Haliç) area of Istanbul, Turkey. They will serve tea, tomatoes, spiced meat, bread, feta cheese, olives, sugar, butter, and rose jam on a communal platter.
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  • Dinner at Carl Doumani's, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Lunch time for visitors at the Mall of America.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Mall of America is the largest among some 50,000 shopping malls in the United States. In addition to a huge amusement park, it houses over 500 stores, 26 fast-food outlets, 37 specialty food stores, and 19 sit-down restaurants, and employs more than 11,000 year-round employees. In excess of 40 million people visit the mall annually, and more than half a billion have visited since it opened in 1992.
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  • Rice farmer  Nguyen Van Theo's family enjoys a meal at their homestead in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi. (Nguyen Van Theo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chen Zhen, a law student in Shanghai China, eats at KFC on Nanjing East Road, Shanghai. (Chen Zhen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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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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  • Munna Kailash, a bicycle rickshaw driver, with his typical day's worth of food outside the small home that he and his wife Meera share with their children in Varanasi?in India's Uttar Pradesh province. (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 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches; and 106 pounds. When he comes home for lunch he normally drinks a cup of tea, takes a short nap, and then heads back out into the steamy heat to find other patrons to cart from one location to the next, a job he does seven days a week.  MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, with his typical day's worth of food at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (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 4,000 kcals. He is 20 years old; 6 feet, 5 inches tall; and 195 pounds. During a two-week stint before his second deployment to Iraq, he spends 12-hour shifts manning the radio communication tent (behind him). He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat). His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. ?Everybody hates that one. It's horrible,? he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village?one of 13 built for training exercises, with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Whizzing around a hospital floor in Danbury, CT., HelpMate delivers patients' meal trays to hospital nurses. Now in healthcare facilities across the United States and in several other countries, the battery-operated, $100,000 HelpMate can transport food, drugs, and hospital wastes and even perform simple patient-care functions, such as guiding patients through hospital corridors. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 186.
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  • A pink plastic tray of fried cicadas, one of many insect varieties found for sale in Phnom Penh's Central Market, Cambodia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • On a warm Saturday afternoon, a young boy with fresh watermelon slices uses the tray for shade as he walks through Kouakourou, Mali, seeking buyers. He pauses by the outdoor barbershop where Soumana Natomo and a group of men are watching a documentary about a Los Angeles SWAT team. Their black-and-white TV is powered by a car battery charged by a solar panel on the roof of the small pharmacy next door. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 217). This image is featured alongside the Natomo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • An Indonesian woman holds a tray of honeycomb containing bee larvae. The honeycomb is an expensive and sought after commodity; it is boiled to release the bee larvae, which are then cooked with coconut oil, garlic, onion, chiles, lemon, fermented fish, sliced green papaya, long beans, and greens, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 63)
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  • A Cambodian saleswoman with a tray full of fried grasshoppers, one of many varieties found in Phnom Penh's Central Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A Cambodian saleswoman holds a plastic tray full of cooked cicadas, one of many varieties found in Phnom Penh's Central Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 47)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Ensada Dudo graciously welcomes visitors to her home in Sarajevo with Turkish sweets and cups of Turkish-style coffee on a handcrafted tray. Metalwork is a Sarajevan specialty. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 51).
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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, inspect a tray of live crabs. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). The Dong family of Beijing, China, 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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