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  • 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.
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits on a rooftop in the old Yemeni city of Sanaa with his typical day's worth of food. (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 3300 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 148 pounds. Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Oscar Higares, a professional bullfighter, with his typical day's worth of food in the bullring in Miraflores De La Sierra, Spain, on a training day. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tersius "Teri" Bezuidenhout, a long-haul trucker delayed by paperwork at the Botswana-Namibia border stands next to his truck with his typical day's worth of road food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aivars  Radzins, a forester and beekeeper, wearing his bee-kleeping clothes, with a smoker and his typical day's worth of food in his backyard in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer with her typical day's worth of food at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in December was 2400 kcals. She is 17 years of age; 5 feet, 4.5 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her father, a renowned miniaturist painter, is seated on the couch, along with her mother and her brother, a university student. Together, they exemplify the educated Iranian upper middle class in Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, famous for art and Islamic architecture. Atefeh's relaxed repose and her attire, combining jeans and headscarf, show her ease with foreigners yet respect for tradition. She aspires to turn her fashion designing avocation into a vocation by becoming a designer after college.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Emil Madsen, a seal hunter, with his typical day's worth of food on the sea ice in front of his sleeping sled dogs near Cap Hope village, Greenland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner with her typical day's worth of food in her parent's bakery in Cologne, Germany. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World ion 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 tall; and 144 pounds. She's wearing her Bread Queen sash and crown, which she dons whenever she appears at festivals, trade shows, and educational events, representing the baker's guild of Germany's greater Cologne region. 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.
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  • Brewmaster Joachim Rösch with all the food he eats in a typical day at Ganter Brewery in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. (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 2700 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 207 pounds. Joachim's job requires him to taste beer a number of times during the week, and unlike in wine tasting, he can't just taste then spit it out: ?Once you've got the bitter on the back of your tongue, you automatically get the swallow reflex, so down the chute you go,? he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan, a porter at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with his day's worth of food.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Dong family in the living room of their one-bedroom apartment in Beijing, China, with a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Molloy family: John, 43, Natalie, 41, Emily, 15 (called Em), and Sean, 5, in Brisbane, on Australia's east coast, with one week's worth of food, in January. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Loaded down with groceries for the family portrait, Li Jinxian and Cui Haiwang are met by Grandfather Cui with his sanlun che (three-wheeled cart) at the entrance to the narrow lane leading to their home. The Cui family (indeed, most rural Chinese) would never buy this quantity of food at one time, but would buy smaller quantities every day. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 87). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, 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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  • During a celebration of the first electricity to come to this village in Bhutan, visiting dignitaries join village elder Namgay at a buffet of red rice, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, beef, chicken, and a spicy cheese and chili pepper soup (close-up of table shown here). The villagers have been stockpiling food for the event. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • During a celebration of the first electricity to come to this region of Bhutan, visiting dignitaries join village member Namgay (in gray with blue cuffs at the table) at a buffet of red rice, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, beef, chicken, and a spicy cheese and chili pepper soup. The villagers have been stockpiling food for the event. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Florida Street, Buenos Aires. McDonalds fast food restaurant
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  • Chef Dan Barber prepares food in the kitchen of his Blue Hills Restaurant in New York City.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chef Dan Barber (left) tastes food at his Blue Hills Restaurant in New York City.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Marble Moahi, a mother living with HIV/AIDS, in the family kitchen in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana with her typical day's worth of food and antiretroviral medications.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in March was 900 kcals. She is 32 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 92 pounds.  Despite a decline in new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, this region of the world remains the most heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS. . MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Guests staying at Bruno Comby's hotel and restaurant in the Chateau Montrame outside of Paris, France smell a number of fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, nuts, and insects (all raw) before eating them. Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame. His institute serves a raw diet he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) holds a grasshopper before eating it. Comby lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame outside of Paris. His institute serves a raw diet  he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Family of Carlo and Marie Paule Kutten-Kass, Luxembourg with one week's worth of food. Photographed in their dining room. MODEL RELEASED. Carlo and Marie Paule Kutten-Kass of the town of Erpeldange in Bous, southeast of Luxembourg City, near the German border. Carolo is 49. Marie Paule is 48. Also in the photograph: their sons Joe, 19, and Georges, 22. Their daughter was away during the time the photograph was made. Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
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  • The Le Moine family in the living room of their apartment in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, with a week's worth of food. Michel Le Moine, 50, and Eve Le Moine, 50, stand behind their daughters, Delphine, 20 (standing), and Laetitia, 16 (holding spaghetti and Coppelius the cat). From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).In Shingkhey, a remote hillside village of a dozen homes, Nalim and Namgay's family assembles in the prayer room of their three-story rammed-earth house with one week's worth of food for their extended family of thirteen. The Namgay family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 36).
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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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  • Much Australian food is similar to the foods found in Europe or the U.S. But some are distinctly Australian, including, notoriously, the yeast-extract spreads shown here. The most famous of these is Vegemite, bought by Kraft from its Australian creators. Other brands include the locally manufactured Mightymite and Promite (a sweeter version). Some Australians still hold out for Marmite, the British original. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 34).  This image is featured alongside the Molloy family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Sea horses, cicadas, silkworm pupae, squid, baby chickens, and stinky tofu at a street food market in Beijing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • The Cui family lunch always includes rice and vegetables fresh from the garden like tomatoes and squash, but also includes chicken, pigs' feet, beef, tofu, and egg-white custard. Weitaiwu Village, China. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 244). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, 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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  • The Mustapha family in their courtyard in Dar es Salaam village, Chad, with a week's worth of food. Gathered around Mustapha Abdallah Ishakh, 46 (turban), and Khadidja Baradine, 42 (orange scarf), are Abdel Kerim, 14, Amna, 12 (standing), Nafissa, 6, and Halima, 18 months. Lying on a rug are (left to right) Fatna, 3, granddaughter Amna Ishakh (standing in for Abdallah, 9, who is herding), and Rawda, 5. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week's worth of food. D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds her daughter Hawa, 2; the other children are (left to right) Acha, 12, Mariam, 5, Youssouf, 8, and Abdel Kerim, 16. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (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.
    USA_120819_060_x.jpg
  • 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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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. In neighborhoods, after receiving food, they line up and chant a blessing towards the benefactor's house. 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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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, her husband Nasrullah, 51, and their daughter Nabeela, 23 with their typical week's worth of food in June. Their son, R. Shan, is studying at a distant university in Norway (photo on wall). Food Expenditure for one week: 2,002.48 Norwegian Kroner; $343.48 USD. Model-Released.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of 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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  • Plastic dessert food ready to be shipped at Harry Fujita's plastic food factory in Torrance, California. Iwasaki Images of America.
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  • Assistant carpenter and tattooist Louie Soto talks on the phone while his wife prepares food at his new home in Sacaton, Arizona. (Louie Soto is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Soto built a new home, financed by casino profits and built by the Gila River Indian Community.
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  • 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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  • Mariel Booth, a professional model and New York University student, reaches for  Tofutti Cuties at a Whole Foods grocery store near her apartment in New York city. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 2400 kcals. She is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 135 pounds. At a healthier weight than when modeling full-time, she feels good but laments that she's making much less money. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • 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.]
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  • Mariel Booth, a professional model and New York University student, at the Ten Ton Studio in Brooklyn with her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 2400 kcals. She is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 135 pounds. At a healthier weight than when modeling full-time, she feels good but laments that she's making much less money. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The head monk at his partially rebuilt monastery with his typical day's worth of food in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 4,900 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 158 pounds.
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  • Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi, a Reform rabbi wearing a tall (prayer shawl), on the balcony of his home in Tzur Hadassah with his typical day's worth of food. (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 October was 3100 Kcals.  He is 43 years of age; 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 165 pounds. Ofer's town in the Judean Hills about 15 minutes southwest of Jerusalem is a communal settlement where residents lease land and houses from the state of Israel for a 99-year period. On Friday evenings Ofer leads the Shabbat service in a small portable building that is kindergarten by day and synagogue at night and on weekends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, balances on one hand with her day's worth of food at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in 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.
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  • Bruno Comby, author of "Delicious Insects" (in French) holds a grasshopper before eating it. Comby's lives and works in the Orkos Institute in the 17th century Chateau Montrame outside of Paris. His institute which serves a raw diet that is the basis of an eating discipline he calls "instinctology" and describes as the Paleolithic nutritional practice by early human hunter-gatherer ancestors. Comby grows insects in cages for food. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Fernandez family in the kitchen of their San Antonio, Texas home with a week's worth of food. Lawrence, and wife Diana, standing, and Diana's mother, Alejandrina Cepeda, sitting with her grandchildren Brian, and Brianna. The Fernandez family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 270).
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  • The Çelik family in the main room of their three-room apartment in Istanbul, Turkey, with a week's worth of food. Mêhmêt Çelik, 40, stands between his wife Melahat, 33 (in black), and her mother, Habibe Fatma Kose, 51. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Matsuda family in the kitchen of their home in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, with a week's worth of food. Takeo Matsuda, 75, and his wife Keiko, 75, stand behind Takeo's mother, Kama, 100. The couple's three grown children live a few miles away. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, in their living room with a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • Maria Natercia Lopes-Furtado, and  her  four children: Darlene, Melody, Teddy, and Lionel, from Cabo Verde living in Luxembourg shopping for one week's worth of food at an Auchan super market across the border in France near their home. Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Molloy family: John, 43, Natalie, 41, Emily, 15 (called Em), and Sean, 5 (wearing his school uniform, including a hat for sun protection)on the backyard patio by their pool in Brisbane, on Australia's east coast, with one week's worth of food, in January. The Molloy family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 30).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Al Haggan family and their two Nepali servants in the kitchen of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait, with one week's worth of food. Standing between Wafaa Abdul Aziz Al Qadini, 37 (beige scarf), and Saleh Hamad Al Haggan, 42, are their children, Rayyan, 2, Hamad, 10, Fatema, 13, and Dana, 4. In the corner are the servants, Andera Bhattrai, 23 (left), and Daki Serba, 27. The Al Haggan family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 196).
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  • At a "longevity restaurant" (an eatery claiming to serve food that will make patrons live longer) in Ogimi, Okinawa, 96-year-old Matsu Taira finishes the long-life lunch with a jellied fruit dessert made from bright-red acerola berries. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 192). Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Matsuda family in the kitchen of their home in Yomitan Village, Okinawa, with a week's worth of food. Takeo Matsuda, 75, and his wife Keiko, 75, stand behind Takeo's mother, Kama, 100. The couple's three grown children live a few miles away. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Mother and child share french-fries at a shopping mall McDonald's fast food chain, Kobe, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Patkar family: Jayant, 48, Sangeeta, 42, daughter Neha, 19, and son Akshay, 15 in the living room of their home in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, with one week's worth of food.  The Patkar family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 166).
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, arranges the food items of Kibet Serem, a tea producer and small scale farmer in Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). Kibet cares for this small tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya, that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Luxembourg. Family portrait of the Lopes-Furtado family with one week’s worth of food in April. The Hungry Planet project.
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
    USA_120818_151_x.jpg
  • 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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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. In neighborhoods, after receiving food, they line up and chant a blessing towards the benefactor's house.They then return to their temples, or wats, and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. In neighborhoods, after receiving food, they line up and chant a blessing towards the benefactor's house.They then return to their temples, or wats, and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Prepared food in the morning food market.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Anne Glad Fredricksen, 45, her husband Anders Ostensen, 48, and their three children, Magnus, 15, Mille 12, and Amund, 8 with their typical week's worth of food in June. Food expenditure for one week: 4265.89 Norwegian Kroner;  $731.71 USD. Model-Released.
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  • A portion of the table of a week's food of the Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, her husband Nasrullah, 51, and their daughter Nabeela, 23. Food Expenditure for one week: 2,002.48 Norwegian Kroner; $343.48 USD. Model-Released.
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  • Ottersland Dahl Family. Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45, her husband Tor Erik Dahn, 39, and their three children, Olav, 6 Hakon, 3, and Sverre, 1.5 of Gjettum, Norway, with their typical week's worth of food in June. Food expenditure for one week: 2211.97 Norwegian Kroner; $379.41 USD. Model-Released.
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  • Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). At evening meal: Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45, her husband Tor Erik Dahn, 39, and their three children, Olav, 6 Hakon, 3, and Sverre, 1.5 of Gjettum, Norway, with their typical week's worth of food in June. Food expenditure for one week: 2211.97 Norwegian Kroner; $379.41 USD. Model-Released.
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  • Returning from the weekly market in Simiatug with most of their purchases strapped onto a borrowed horse, Orlando Ayme (35, father), leads the horse and Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo (37, mother), and Livia Rocío (15, daughter) follow. Their home in Tingo is an hour walk up the mountain. Orlando sold two sheep for $35 to buy food for his family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Gordon Stine, a farmer, with his typical day's worth of food in his family's soybean field in St. Elmo, 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 4,100 kcals. He is 56 years old; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 245 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tiffany Whitehead, a student and part-time ride supervisor at the Mall of America amusement park, buys lunch from a fast food outlet at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • 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.]
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, arranges the food items of Kibet Serem, a tea producer and small scale farmer in Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). Kibet cares for this small tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya, that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • 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.
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  • Coco Simone Finken, a teenage vegetarian who lives in the city of Gatineau*, Quebec blows birthday candles on a homemade carrot cake baked by her mother and sister. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of October was 1900 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 130 pounds. The family doesn't own a car, buys organic food if it's not too expensive, and grows some of their own vegetables in their front yard. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Ruma Akhter, a seamstress and one of over 6,000 employees at the Ananta Apparels company  in Dhaka, Bangladesh with her typical day's worth of food. (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 1800 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet tall; and 86 pounds. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Nguy?n V?n Theo, a rice farmer, in his courtyard in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam, with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in December was 2500 kcals. He is 51 years of age; 5 feet, 4 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Behind him is a pile of last year's rice straw, used for fuel to boil water in the family's small kitchen. Rainwater from the tile roof of the main house fills a cement cistern, providing water for drinking and cooking. Theo enjoys the relative tranquility of village life, compared to his wife's busy routine of selling fresh produce on the sidewalks of Hanoi. Floods ruined his rice crop a few months ago, so after last year's store of rice is eaten, the family will rely on his wife's income to buy this staple grain until he harvests the next crop. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gordon Stine, a farmer, with his typical day's worth of food in his family's soybean field in St. Elmo, 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 4,100 kcals. He is 56 years old; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 245 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez, a restaurant owner and chef with her typical day's worth of food in her family's Mexican restaurant, Los Dos Laredos in Chicago. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 3,200 kcals. She is is 39 years of age; 5 feet, 2.5 inches tall; and 190 pounds.   She grew up in an apartment above Los Dos Laredos, where she still helps out two days a week. Other days she spends long hours at her own restaurant in Alsip, Illinois. At right: Lourdes takes a phone order, while her daughter, Alejandra, checks her mobile phone after school. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ernie Johnson, a finish carpenter and paddle surfer, with his typical day's worth of food near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California. (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 3500 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 165 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran, with his parents and his typical day's worth of food at their home in Inglewood, California.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 2100 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet 10 inches tall; and 135 pounds. Adams was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet while serving in Baghdad, Iraq. Damaged nerves that normally enervate a missing or paralyzed body part can trigger the body's most basic warning that something isn't right: pain. Felipe experiences these phantom pains, which feel like stabbing electric shocks, dozens of times a day; they cause him to grip his leg tightly for a moment or two until the sensation subsides.
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  • Kelvin Lester, a floor supervisor at a meat processing company with his typical day's worth of food at his kitchen table in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (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 2,600 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 195 pounds. The hands on the right belong to Kiara, his four-year-old adopted daughter. Several times a week, hamburger patties that he purchases with an employee discount wind up on his dinner table, and then go into his lunch box, along with his wife's homemade potato salad. With more than 20 years of experience grinding beef at the Rochester Meat Company, Kelvin says he always grills hamburgers?no matter who has ground them?until they are well-done, because any contamination is most easily rendered harmless by thorough cooking, meaning cooking them to an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Louie Soto, a carpenter's assistant and tattooist, of Pima, Tohono O'odham, Mohawk, Ottawa, and Mexican heritage, with his typical day's worth of food while dieting at his old home in Sacaton, Arizona.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in May was 2,700 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 320 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Todd Kincer, a coal miner, with his typical day's worth of food and his workday lunch box at his home in Mayking, Kentucky. (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 April was 3,200 kcals. He is 34 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 185 pounds. After showering and scrubbing off the day's coal dust, Todd gets ready to dig in to one of his favorite meals: Hamburger Helper with double noodles. A college graduate drawn to the coal mine by the relatively high pay, Todd spends a 10-hour shift mining underground, driving a low-slung electric shuttle car that carries coal from the face of the coal seam, where it's being chewed up by a deafening, dusty mining machine, to a conveyer belt. The mine, located deep inside a mountain in the Appalachians near the town of Whitesburg, Kentucky, is pitch-black, except for headlights and headlamps. During winter months, Todd never sees daylight during the workweek. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author with his typical day's worth of food on his family farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3,900 kcals. He is 50 years old; 5 feet. 11 inches tall; and 198 pounds.  Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.  MODEL RELEASED.
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