Fascinating project: What people eat in different countries

In this issue you will find a fascinating photo project dedicated to food. No, these are not regular photos of "dining still lifes" or beautiful dishes from Instagram. This is a project about who, what and how eats in different countries of the world every day.

Photojournalist Peter Menzel and his wife, writer Faith D'Aloisio from California, have visited many countries for 30 years and met with a lot of people to... find out what they eat all day. During this project, a fascinating study of the diet of different peoples was made, and as a result of this painstaking work, the book "What I Eat: Around the World in 80 meals" was published. The photos are collected by the number of calories consumed for the whole day. The smallest number of calories in the book is 800, the largest is 12,300. This interesting photo project gives us the opportunity to find out what people eat in different countries. And most importantly, how much they eat.

Camel seller Saleh Abdul Fadlilli with his daily ration. Cairo, Egypt. The caloric content of his food for one day is 3200 kcal. Abdul is 40 years old. Height — 172 cm . Weight — 74 kg.

Robina Weiser-Linnartz is a pastry chef. The photo was taken at her family's bakery in Cologne, Germany. The energy value of her daily diet is 3700 kcal. Robina is 28 years old. Height — 1.6 m . Weight — 65 kg. She's wearing a Bread Queen ribbon and a crown. In this outfit, she appears at festivals, exhibitions and educational events, representing the bakers Guild of the Cologne region.

Shashi Kant is a call center worker at his office in Bangalore, India. He is 23 years old. Height — 1,7 m . Weight — 55 kg. Like thousands of other workers at similar centers in India, he eats fast food, chocolates and coffee to last the night shift. His task is to help callers solve technical problems and answer questions from his company's customers.

Tersiy "Teri" Bezuidenhut is a trucker who got stuck on the Botswana—Namibia border due to problems with paperwork for the goods he was transporting. Next to it is his one—day diet.

Oscar Higares is a professional matador with a typical set of foods that he eats in one day, Milaflores de la Sierra, Spain.

The head monk in a restored Tibetan monastery with a typical diet for the whole day. The energy value of his daily diet is 4900 kcal. He is 45 years old. Height — 1.65 m . Weight — 71 kg.

Curtis Newcomer — US soldier in The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Mojave Desert, California. The energy value of his daily diet is 4000 kcal. Height — 1.9 m . Weight — 88 kg. Two weeks of preparation before departure to Iraq (for the second time), he works 12 hours a day in a radio broadcast tent (behind in the photo). In the morning and in the evening, he eats in the common dining room, and his lunch consists of an individual army ration pack. Kurtis's least favorite dish is an omelet made of cheese and vegetables.

Dean Memon is a taxi driver from Chicago. The energy value of his diet is 2000 kcal. He is 59 years old. Height — 1,7 m . Weight — 108 kg. Favorite food is kebabs, tikka with chicken or biryani. Tikka is fried meat in a marinade, and biryani is a rice dish with meat, fish or vegetables, heavily seasoned with saffron or turmeric.

Conrad Tolby is an American trucker in Effingham, Illinois. The energy value of his daily diet is 5400 kcal. Tolby was 54 years old at the time of the photo. Height — 1.87 m . Weight — 117 kg. His food on the road is almost unchanged — roadside cafes for truckers and fast food rich in fat. He has a lot of reasons to watch his diet, because he has already experienced two heart attacks right behind the wheel. Conrad travels with his constant companion — a 5-year-old sharpey named Dude, who shares calories with his master.

Mariel Booth is a professional model and student at New York University in Brooklyn. The energy value of her daily diet is 2400 kcal. She is 23 years old. Height — 1.76 m . Weight — 61 kg. This girl eats much better than other models, although she complains that she earns much less.

Katerina Navas — a high school student — on the roof of her house in Caracas, Venezuela. The energy value of her daily diet is 4000 kcal. She is 18 years old. Height — 1,7 m . Weight — 71 kg.

Osvaldo Gutierrez, oil rig worker in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. The energy value of his daily diet is 6000 kcal. Osvaldo is 52 years old. Height — 1,7 m . Weight — 99 kg. Gutierrez works on the platform on schedule 7 through 7. While working, he runs on the helicopter landing pad, practices karate, lifts barbells and pulls himself up on a rope to keep himself in shape. On working days, he eats at the local canteen, where the choice of dishes varies from healthy to fatty and harmful. Freshly squeezed orange juice is always on the menu, and Gutierrez drinks it three liters a day. His diet changed 10 years ago when he decided to change fat for health, unlike most of his colleagues.

Ngayen Van Tuan is a veteran of the Vietnam War — with his typical daily diet in the apartment where he lives with his wife.

Saada Haidar is a housewife from Sanaa, Yemen. The energy value of her daily diet is 2700 kcal. Saada is 27 years old. Height — 1.5 m . Weight — 44 kg. In public, Saada, like most Yemeni women, hides under a burqa, according to local traditions.

Bruce Hopkins is a lifeguard at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. The energy value of his daily diet is 3700 kcal. He is 35 years old. Height — 1.83 m . Weight — 81 kg. Hopkins eats modestly, tries to abstain from fast food and drinks alcohol only when he and his wife meet with friends.

Shanaz Begum — a mother of four children — at her house with rented cows and a typical daily diet in the village of Baria Majlis, in Dhaka.

Solange Da Silva Correia — the farmer's wife— at their house by the Solimoins River. The energy value of her daily diet is 3400 kcal. She is 49 years old. Height — 1.58 m . Weight — 76 kg. She and her husband Francisco (pictured right) live in the village of Kaviana with three of their four children in a house built by their grandfather-in-law. The family raises cattle and sometimes slaughters sheep for food, but mostly proteins in their diet are represented by fish and eggs. They also pick fruits and Brazil nuts in their garden and buy rice, pasta and cornmeal at Kaviana's store. In addition, they regularly buy their favorite soft drink Solange, which is made from guarana, a berry rich in caffeine that grows only in Brazil.

Coco Simon Finken is a vegetarian from Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The energy value of the daily diet is 1900 kcal. She is 16 years old. Height — 1.76 m . Weight — 58 kg. The family doesn't have a car, they buy organic food if it's not too expensive, and they grow some vegetables in the yard in front of the house.

Wili Ishulutak is an Eskimo and professional stone carver from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. The calorie content of his daily diet is 4700 kcal. He is 29 years old. Height — 1.75 m . Weight — 64 kg. Carving is one of the few traditional crafts of the Eskimos who have "jumped over" into modern society. Wili says he can carve two or three crafts a day, and then sell them at a bar or restaurant in Iqaluit for $100 each, or even more.

Neil Jones is a restaurant manager at the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. The caloric content of his daily diet is 2600 kcal. He is 44 years old. Height — 1.87 m . Weight — 99 kg. The observation deck is located above the tallest revolving restaurant in the world. It offers amazing views, and for a tourist attraction, the food here is surprisingly chic. And if you are going to eat at a restaurant, then you do not need to pay for entrance to the observation deck and for using the elevator (which is almost $ 25 per person), so having lunch here can be cheaper than just admiring the views from the platform.

Xu Zhipeng is a freelance computer designer and gamer. The photo was taken in an Internet cafe in Shanghai. The caloric content of his daily diet is 1600 kcal. He is 23 years old. Height — 1.87 m . Weight — 71 kg. He practically lives at the computer day and night, sleeps right here if he's tired, and takes a shower once a week in a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. If he gets tired of playing in a cafe, he reads fantasy books.

Chen Zheng is a student from Shanghai. The calorie content of her daily diet is 2600 kcal. She is 20 years old. Height — 1.65 m . Weight — 48 kg. Although she doesn't like noodles or rice, a special rice roll is her favorite type of snack: black rice wrapped in fried bread with pickled vegetables, mustard and thin slices of dried pork. Zheng and his friends eat at KFC about three times a week. Meanwhile, her father and grandparents, who live in a tiny apartment in northeast Shanghai, go without meat all week to afford a special dinner when their beloved daughter and granddaughter come to visit for the weekend.

Lan Guihua is the widow of a farmer from Ganjiagou Township, Sichuan, China. The calorie content of her daily diet is 1900 kcal. She is 68 years old. Height — 1.6 m . Weight — 54 kg. Lan's house is located in a bamboo forest on a hill, at the foot of which her husband is buried. And the view from the courtyard opens onto citrus groves, fields and vegetable gardens. Although the basis of her diet consists of vegetables and rice grown by herself, in the background in the photo you can see chickens and a cup of water, which Lan uses for plucking and gutting chicken carcasses. Lan usually treats guests with meat. In this region, every family provides itself with food, which is why agricultural knowledge and skills that are passed down from generation to generation are so important here.

Maria Ermelinda Aime Sichigalo is a peasant and mother of eight children from the village of Tingo, Central Andes, Ecuador. The caloric value of her daily diet is 3800 kcal. She is 37 years old. Height — 1.6 m . Weight — 53 kg. There are no tables or chairs in Ermelinda's house. She cooks all the dishes, leaning over the stove on the dirt floor like this. Guinea pigs, who scurry around in search of scraps, eventually end up on fire themselves when the family is preparing for some holiday. Since there is no chimney in the house, the crossbeams and the roof are blackened by smoke. Unventilated smoke from stoves is the culprit of many respiratory problems in rural Ecuador. They say he is to blame for half of the cases of child mortality.