What People Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets
What do People around the world eat on an average day? Photographer
Peter Menzel and his wife Faith traveled to 30 countries, with camera
and notebook in hand to shop, cook, and eat with a strikingly diverse
range of people.
His Book “What i Eat: Around the world in 80 Diets”
contains Portraits and essays of 80 individuals and the food that fuels
them over the course of a single day. Including an Egyptian camel
broker, a Japanese sumo wrestler, a Sudanese refugee in Chad, a Tibetan
yak herder, a Bangladeshi factory seamstress, an Arctic hunter, an
Indian Hindu sadhu, a Namibian diamond polisher, and a wounded Iraq war
veteran.
Here is a small selection from his book..
Egypt
Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah with his day’s worth of food at
the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. The caloric value of his
day’s worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 3200
kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds
Germany
Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner with her
typical day’s worth of food in her parent’s bakery in Cologne, Germany.
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.
India
Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, with his day’s worth of food in
his office at the AOL call center in Bangalore, India. (From the book
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 23 years of age; 5
feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. Like many of the thousands of call
center workers in India, he relies on fast-food meals, candy bars, and
coffee to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to
Westerners about various technical questions and billing problems.
Botswana
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. The caloric value of his day’s worth
of food is 8400 kcals. He is 25 years of age.
Spain
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. The caloric value of his typical day’s worth of food in
the month of April was 4,200 kcals. He is 34 years old.
U.S.A
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. The caloric value of his day’s worth of food in the month
of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20 years old.
U.S.A
The Long Haul Trucker Conrad Tolby, an American long-distance truck
driver, photographed with a typical day’s worth of food on the cab hood
of his semi tractor trailer at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham,
Illinois.
U.S.A
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.
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.
Venezuela
Katherine Navas, a high school student, on the roof of her family’s
home in a barrio in Caracas, Venezuela with her typical day’s worth of
food. The caloric value of her typical day’s worth of food in the month
of November was 4,000 kcals. She is 18 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches
tall; and 157 pounds
Venezuela
Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake
Maracaibo, Venezuela with his typical day’s worth of food. The caloric
value of his day’s worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He
is 52 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 220 pounds. Gutierrez
works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.
Vietnam
Nguyên Van Thuan, a war veteran, with his wife in their studio apartment with his typical day’s worth of food.
Yemen
Saada Haidar, a housewife, with her typical day’s worth of food at
her home in the city of Sanaa, Yemen. The caloric value of her day’s
worth of food in the month of April was 2700 kcals. She is 27 years of
age; 4 feet, 11 inches tall; and 98 pounds. In public, Saada and most
Yemeni women cover themselves for modesty, in accordance with tradition.
Australia
Bruce Hopkins, a Bondi Beach lifeguard, with his typical day’s worth
of food in Sydney, New South Whales, Australia. The caloric value of his
day’s worth of food on a typical day in the month of February was 3700
kcals. He is 35 years of age; 6 feet tall, and 180 pounds. Hopkins eats
moderately – rarely, if ever – eats fast food, and drinks alcohol only
when he and his wife go to dinner with friends.
Bangladesh
Shahnaz Begum, a mother of four, outside her home with her
microloan-financed cows and her typical day’s worth of food outside her
home in the village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka.
Brazil
Solange Da Silva Correia, a rancher’s wife, with family members in
their house overlooking the Solimoes River, with her typical day’s worth
of food. The caloric value of her day’s worth of food on a typical day
in the month of November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age
China
Xu Zhipeng, a freelance computer graphics artist and Internet gamer,
with his typical day’s worth of food in his rented chair at the Ming
Wang Internet Café in Shanghai, China. The caloric value of his day’s
worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age
China
Chen Zhen, a university student, with her typical day’s worth of food
on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai, China. The caloric value of her
typical day’s worth of food in June was 2600 kcals. She is 20 years of
age
Ecuador
Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her
typical day’s worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo
village, central Andes, Ecuador. The caloric value of her typical day’s
worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years
of age
image credits: MenzelPhoto
