With a broken-down oven, in a hotel kitchen, on an uninhabited island
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Peter Menzel lives in Napa, California, and has been producing “thinking people’s photography books” with his wife and coauthor, Faith D’Aluisio, for twenty years. They are currently working on a book about death rituals around the world, which they hope to finish before they die.
In 2006 my husband, photojournalist Peter Menzel, and I produced a book detailing the food that thirty families in twenty-four different countries consumed in one week’s time. . . . We traveled the world again, this time photographing scores of different people from disparate backgrounds, each with one typical day’s worth of food. The result is What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.
Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, Maasai herder, Kenya Age: 38 • Height: 5′5″ • Weight: 103 lbs. Calories: 800
Miyabiyama, sumo wrestler, Japan Age: 29 • Height: 6′2″ • Weight: 400 lbs. Calories: 3,500
Saada Haidar, homemaker, Yemen Age: 27 • Height: 4′11″ • Weight: 98 lbs. Calories: 2,700
Tiffany Whitehead, Mall of America staffer, United States Age: 21 • Height: 5′7″ • Weight: 130 lbs. Calories: 1,900
Head monk, Tibet Autonomous Region, China Age: 45 • Height: 5′5″ • Weight: 158 lbs. Calories: 4,900
Alamin Hasan, train porter, Bangladesh Age: 12 • Height: 4′7″ • Weight: 68 lbs. Calories: 1,400
Jeff Devine, high-rise ironworker, United States Age: 39 • Height: 6′1″ • Weight: 235 lbs. Calories: 6,600
Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, farmer, Ecuador Age: 37 • Height: 5′3″ • Weight: 119 lbs. Calories: 3,800