Fascinating project: What people eat in different countries

In this issue you will find the fascinating photo project dedicated to the food. No, this is not just another photo "dining still lifes" or beautiful dishes from Instagram. This is a project about who, what and how it feeds in different countries around the world every day.

Photojournalist Peter Menzel and his wife, a writer faith D Aluisio from California for 30 years, visited many countries and met a lot of people to... to know what they eat all day. During this project we made a fascinating study of the diet of different Nations, and as a result of this hard work was published in "What I eat: around the world in 80 meals". The pictures are collected for the number of calories consumed for the day. The least number of calories in the book is 800, the highest 12 300. This project gives us the opportunity to learn what people eat in different countries. And most importantly, how much they eat.

Seller camels Fat Abdul Fantelli with your daily diet. Cairo, Egypt. The caloric value of his food for one day is 3200 kcal. Abdul 40 years. Height – 172 cm Weight – 74 kg.

Robin Weiser, Linnartz – pastry chef. Photos are made in the bakery her family in Cologne, Germany. The energy value of daily ration is 3700 kcal. Robin 28. Height – 1.6 m Weight 65 kg. her ribbon Bread Queen and the crown. In this outfit she appears at festivals, exhibitions and educational events, representing the Guild of bakers Cologne region.

Shashi Kant – employee call center in your office in Bangalore, India. He is 23 years old. Growth of 1.7 m Weight – 55 kg. Like thousands of other workers, such centres in India, he eats junk food, chocolate, and coffee to survive the night shift. His task is to help the caller to solve technical problems and answer questions of their customers.

Terse "Teri" Bezuidenhout – trucker stranded at the border Botswana-Namibia due to problems with the paperwork for the case he was carrying. Close – it food.

Oscar Highres – professional Matador with a typical set of products, which he eats for one day, Miraflores de La Sierra, Spain.

The head monk in a Tibetan monastery restored with a typical diet for the day. The energy value of daily ration – 4900 kcal. He's 45 years old. Height – 1.65 m. Weight – 71 kg.

Curtis of Newcomer – US soldiers at the National training center at Fort Irwin in the Mojave desert, California. The energy value of daily ration to 4000 kcal. Height – 1.9 m Weight – 88 kg. For the two weeks of training before flying to Iraq (for the second time) it 12 hours a day working in the tent of the radio (behind the photo). Morning and evening he eat in the common dining room, and his lunch consists of individual army of dry rations. Least favorite dish Curtis – omelet with cheese and vegetables.

DIN Memon is a taxi driver from Chicago. The energy value of the diet of 2000 kcal. He is 59 years old. Growth of 1.7 m Weight – 108 kg. Favorite food – kebabs, Tikka or chicken biryani. Tikka is roast meat in the marinade, and biryani – a dish of rice with meat, fish or vegetables heavily flavored with saffron or turmeric.

Conrad tolbi – American trucker in Effingham, Illinois. The energy value of daily ration – 5400 kcal. At the time of photography tolbi was 54 years old. Growth of 1.87 m Weight – 117 kg. His food is on the road almost unchanged at a roadside cafe for truckers and fast food, rich in fat. He has many reasons to watch the diet, because he's already suffered two heart attack behind the wheel. Conrad travels with his constant companion – a 5‑year-old Shar-Pei named Dude, who shares the calories with its owner.

Mariel Booth is a professional model and student at new York University in Brooklyn. The energy value of the daily diet of 2400 calories. She was 23 years old. Growth of 1.76 m, Weight is 61 kg. this girl Eats much better than the other models, although complains that it earns far less.

Katherine Navas high school on the roof of his home in Caracas, Venezuela. The energy value of the daily diet of 4,000 calories. She was 18 years old. Growth of 1.7 m Weight – 71 kg.

Osvaldo Gutierrez, working oil rigs in lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. The energy value of daily ration – 6000 kcal. Osvaldo 52 years. Growth of 1.7 m Weight – 99 kg Gutierrez is powered on schedule 7 through 7. During operation it is run on the platform for helicopter landing, practicing karate, raises the rod and pulled on the rope to keep himself in shape. On working days he eats in a local cafeteria, where the choice of dishes range from healthy to fat and unhealthy. Fresh orange juice always on the menu, and Gutierrez drinking three liters a day. His diet has changed 10 years ago when he decided to change the fat to health, unlike most of his colleagues.

Nguyen van Tuan, a veteran of the Vietnam war – with its typical daily intake in the apartment where he lives with his wife.

Saada Haidar, a housewife from Sana'a, Yemen. The energy value of daily ration – 2700 kcal. Saade 27 years. Height – 1.5 m Weight 44 kg In public saada, like the majority of Yemeni women, hidden under the veil, according to local tradition.

Bruce Hopkins – the rescuer on the beach to Bondi beach, Sydney, Australia. The energy value of daily ration – 3700 kcal. He is 35 years. Height – 1.83 m. Weight – 81 kg Hopkins eats modestly, trying to refrain from fast food and drinking alcohol only when he and his wife meeting with friends.

Shahnaz Begum, the mother of four children at their home with cows, leased, and the typical daily diet in the village of Bari Majlis in Dhaka.

Solange Da Silva Correia – the farmer's wife in their house by the river Solimoes. The energy value of daily ration – 3400 kcal. She is 49 years old. Growth of 1.58 m Weight – 76 kg and her husband, Francisco (right photo) live in the village of Kavian three of the four children in the house, which was built by their grandfather husband. The family raises cattle and sometimes kills a sheep for food, but mostly proteins in their diets is represented by the fish and eggs. They also collect fruit and Brazil nuts in your garden and buy rice, pasta and corn flour in the store Kaviani. In addition, they regularly buy your favorite cold beverage Solange, which is made from guarana berries, rich in caffeine, which grows only in Brazil.

Coco Simone Finken – vegan from the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The energy value of daily ration – 1900 kcal. She is 16 years old. Growth of 1.76 m Weight – 58 kg. no one In the family car, they buy organic food if it is not too expensive, and in the front yard to grow some veggies.

Ishulutak Wiley – eskimo and professional stone Carver from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. The caloric value of his day diet – 4700 kcal. He is 29 years old. Height – 1.75 m. Weight – 64 kg. Thread is one of the few traditional crafts Eskimos, "that moved" in modern society. Willie says he can cut two or three crafts in the day, and then sell them in a bar or restaurant of Iqaluit for $ 100 each, and even more expensive.

Neil Jones is a managing a restaurant in the tower the CN tower in Toronto, Canada. The caloric value of his day diet – 2600 kcal. He was 44 years. Growth of 1.87 m Weight – 99 kg. the Observation deck is located above the highest revolving restaurant in the world. It offers marvelous views, and tourist attractions, the food here is surprisingly gorgeous. And if you're going to eat at a restaurant, you don't need to pay for entrance to the observation deck and the use of the Elevator (which is almost $ 25 per person), so dining here may be cheaper than just admire the views from the site.

Xu Japan – computer freelance designer and gamer. Photo taken in an Internet café in Shanghai. The caloric value of his day diet – 1600 kcal. He is 23 years old. Growth of 1.87 m Weight 71 kg, He practically lives at the computer day and night, sleep right here if you're tired and taking a shower once a week in the apartment of a friend. Its longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. If he gets tired of all the games in the shop, he reads books in the fantasy genre.

Chen Zheng, a student from Shanghai. The caloric value of her day diet – 2600 kcal. She is 20 years old. Height – 1.65 m. Weight – 48 kg. Although she doesn't like noodles or rice, special rice roll – her favorite kind of snack: brown rice, wrapped in a fried bread with pickled vegetables, mustard, and thin slices of dried pork. Zheng with friends eats at KFC about three times a week. Meanwhile, her father and grandparents, who live in a tiny apartment in the North-East of Shanghai, go without meat for the whole week to afford a special dinner, when the beloved daughter and granddaughter come to visit for the weekend.

LAN Guihua – the widow of a farmer from the village Canizzaro, Sichuan, China. The caloric value of her day diet – 1900 kcal. She is 68 years old. Height – 1.6 m Weight – 54 kg. LAN House located in the bamboo forest on the hill, at the foot of which is buried by her husband. A view from the courtyard opens on citrus groves, fields and gardens. Although the basis of its diet is made grown her own vegetables and rice, in the background of the photo you can see the chickens and a Cup of water that lang uses to plucking and gutting a chicken carcasses. Usually meat LAN treats guests. In this region every family is self-sufficient food, why it's so important agricultural knowledge and skills that are passed down from generation to generation.

Maria Aime Ermelinda was Shichigoro – farmer and mother of eight children from Tingo village, Central Andes, Ecuador. The caloric value of her day diet – 3800 kcal. She was 37 years old. Height – 1.6 m Weight – 53 kg In the house of Ermelinda no tables, no chairs. All the dishes she prepares, bending over like the stove on the earthen floor. Guinea pigs that roam around looking for scraps in the end, find themselves at the fire, when the family is preparing for any holiday. Since there are no pipes, beams and roof turned black from the smoke. Non-vented the smoke from the ovens is the culprit of many problems with the respiratory tract in rural areas of Ecuador. They say he is to blame for half of all deaths of children.