John McQuiston, a longtime operator of Lock and Dam 1 on the upper Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota. The lock and dam system is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and creates a navigable waterway for river vessels.
From the coverage for the What I Eat project, but not included in the book.
Age: 55 • Height: 5'10" • Weight: 240 pounds
ONE DAY’S FOOD in JuneCALORIES 3,064BREAKFAST Banana (2), 13.1 oz • Grapes, 6 oz • Coffee (4) with Great Value half and half, 31.5 fl oz; and Splenda sweetener, 0.5 tsp
LUNCH Homemade chicken noodle soup with homegrown vegetables and homemade stock, 1.5 lb • Panera whole grain bread, 12.6 oz; with Great Value butter, 1.5 tbsp • Salad of mixed lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, and red peppers, 7.1 oz; with Hidden Valley, The Original Ranch dressing, 2 tbsp; and Wish-Bone Western Sweet and Smooth dressing, 2 tbsp
DINNER De Wafelbakkers frozen buttermilk pancakes, 5.6 oz; with Great Value pancake and waffle syrup (5% real maple syrup), 1.2 oz; and butter, 1.5 tbsp • Milk, 1%, 11.4 fl oz
THROUGHOUT THE DAY Dr. Pepper (5), diet, 60 fl oz • Tap water, 7 fl oz
China, The Teenaged Acrobat
Name: Cao Xiaoli
Age: 16; Height: 5' 2"; Weight: 99 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 1700 calories
BREAKFAST: Yipin Xuan cake, 5.5 oz. Danone yogurt, kiwi, 3.5 oz. Apple, 7.2 oz.
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LUNCH : Zha paigu (pork ribs, breaded and deep-fried), 2.8 oz., with rice flour noodles, 3.5 oz., and stir-fried cucumber, 5.4 oz. Tea egg (hard-boiled egg stewed in salted tea), 1.7 oz. Salty vegetable broth with green onion, 9.8 oz. White rice, 5.9 oz.
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THROUGHOUT THE DAY: Uni-President bottled green tea, unsweetened, 16.9 fl. oz. Boiled water, 23.7 fl. oz.
Cao Xiaoli and the acrobatic troupe perform 7 nights a week. They live at the Shanghai Circus World complex, and eat in the employee cafeteria. On the weekends when she's not working, Cao Xiaoli's mother feeds her home cooking and fast food.
Namibia, The Pastoralist
Name: Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman
Age: 23; Height: 5' 8"; Weight: 160 pounds
The caloric value of her food this day: 1500 calories*
FIRST MEAL OF THE DAY: Cornmeal porridge, 1.7 lb. with sour whole milk, 11.3 fl. oz.
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SECOND MEAL: Cornmeal porridge, 1.8 lb. with sour whole milk, 11.3 fl. oz.
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THROUGHOUT THE DAY: Sour whole milk, 26.3 fl. oz. Bird plums (not pictured as she ate what she had picked before the photo was taken), 3.5 oz. Water from nearby river, 12 fl. oz.
A Himba family's wealth is computed in cattle but family members seldom eat a cow or goat themselves, except on special occasions. Viahondjera Musutua's staple foods are milk she ferments herself, for preservation, and corn meal porridge.
* The authors used a typical recent day as a starting point for their interviews with 80 people in 30 countries. They specifically chose not to cover daily caloric averages, as they wanted to include some extreme examples of eating, like one woman's diet on a bingeing day or the small number of calories a herder in Kenya ate during extreme drought. The texts in the book provide the context for the photographs, detailing each person's diet, culture, and circumstance at the moment they were photographed: a snapshot in time. A complete methodology is available in the book.
Minnesota, USA, The Mall of America Staffer
Name: Tiffany Whitehead, student and part-time ride supervisor
Age: 21; Height: 5' 7"; Weight: 130 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 1900 calories
EARLY MEAL: Burger King Chicken Fries (breaded, fried chicken strips), 3.7 oz. Burger King french fries, 4.5 oz. Dr. Pepper, 15.7 fl. oz.
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LATER MEAL: Taco Bell hard-shell tacos, ground beef (3), 10.3 oz., with Taco Bell Border Sauce, mild, 1.5 oz. Mountain Dew Baja Blast, 25.7 fl. oz.
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SNACKS: Betty Crocker Scooby-Doo! snacks, fruit flavored, 2.6 oz. Stride Forever Fruit gum, 3 pieces. Ice to chew, 1.3 lb.
Tiffany Whitehead says that when she worked full-time, she would bring a healthier lunch from home, but at the time of her food portrait relied on fast food to sustain her on workdays.
Egypt, The Camel Broker
Name: Saleh Abdul Fadlallah
Age: 40; Height: 5' 8"; Weight: 165 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 3200 calories
BREAKFAST: Eggs (2), 3.8 oz., fried with butter, 1 tbsp., eaten with ful medames (fava beans cooked with garlic, lemon juice, cumin, and oil, not in picture*), 5.2 oz., and aish baladi (flat country bread), 8.6 oz. Fried potato chips, 1.3 oz. Tomatoes, 6.1 oz., with salt, 0.5 tsp. Feta cheese, 3.7 oz. Black tea, 3.8 fl. oz., with sugar, 1 tbsp. Boiled water, 7 fl. oz.
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LUNCH: Goat meat broth with bone, 6.7 oz. Potato and tomato cooked with onion, garlic, cumin, Egyptian baharat (spice mixture), and oil, 6.7 oz. Soup of molokhiya (Jew's mallow), chicken stock, butter, garlic, and coriander, 4.5 oz. White rice, 7.5 oz. Black tea, 3.8 fl. oz., with sugar, 1 tbsp.
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DINNER: Aish baladi, 8.6 oz. Feta cheese, 2.3 oz. White rice, 6.3 oz. Fried potato chips, 1.5 oz. Black tea, 4 fl. oz., with sugar, 1 tbsp. Boiled water, 7 fl. oz.
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THROUGHOUT THE DAY: Black tea (6), 20 fl. oz., with sugar, 2.5 oz. Cleopatra king-size cigarettes, 1 pack
Although virtually all of the camels that Saleh Fadlallah sells at the camel market are sold for their meat, he rarely eats this meat himself as it's too expensive for everyday meals.
* The dish at the lower right, additional goat meat with broth, is a stand-in for the missing beans; it is not included in the calorie total.
Ecuador, The Mountain Farmer
Name: Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo
Age: 37; Height: 5' 3"; Weight: 119 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 3800 calories
BREAKFAST: Empanadas (fried turnovers) filled with cheese, 8.1 oz. Chapo (toasted barley and wheat flours, mixed with instant coffee, panela [hard brown sugar], and hot water), 7.5 oz. Panela mixed with hot water, 6.4 fl. oz.
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LUNCH: Barley flour, added to water to make barley flour soup, 10.6 oz. Boiled potatoes with carrots and green beans, 1.4 lb.
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DINNER: Salad of lettuce, potato, and carrot, 15.2 oz. Green plantain, 3.5 oz. Yellow plantain, 7.8 oz.
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SNACKS AND OTHER: Roasted potatoes, 1.4 lb. Machica (toasted barley and wheat flours), added to hot water and eaten throughout the day, 4.6 oz. Water from a nearby spring, for cooking, 2.1 qt.
A subsistence farmer and mother of eight, Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo prepares all of the family's meals while kneeling on an earthen floor, cooking over an open fire of sticks and straw. The hard manual labor of farming and shepherding at an elevation above 11,000 feet, as well as cooking and caring for the children, requires a substantial number of calories. Her family doesn't eat the animals they raise — only sell them to buy what they don't grow or have on hand.
California, USA, The US Army Soldier
Name: Curtis Newcomer
Age: 20; Height: 6' 5"; Weight: 195 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 4000 calories
MESS HALL BREAKFAST: Corned beef hash, 2.2 oz. Scrambled egg, 3 oz. Bacon, 0.7 oz. Apple, 6 oz. Otis Spunkmeyer cookie, chocolate chip, 2.3 oz.
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LUNCH MRE: (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) ham and shrimp jambalaya, 8 oz. (dry weight) MRE vegetable and cheese omelet, 8 oz. (dry weight) MRE shredded potatoes with bacon, 5 oz. (dry weight) MRE cinnamon scone, 2 oz. MRE toaster pastry, strawberry, 1.6 oz. MRE crackers, 1.3 oz. MRE Pangea World Bakers pound cake, vanilla, 2.5 oz. MRE dairy shake fortified with calcium and vitamin D, strawberry, powdered, 3.5 oz. (dry weight) MRE orange carbohydrate electrolyte beverage, powdered, 1.5 tbsp. (dry weight) MRE Crystal Light red tea, 0.5 tsp. (dry weight) MRE jam, blackberry, 2 tbsp. Frank's Red Hot pepper sauce, 1.5 tbsp.
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MESS HALL DINNER: Shrimp scampi, 2.7 oz., with Parmesan cheese, 0.5 tsp., and Frank's Red Hot pepper sauce, 1.5 tbsp. White bread, 2.5 oz. Salad of lettuce and tomato, 2.4 oz. Peas, canned, 1.8 oz. Del Monte fruit cocktail, lite, 4 oz. Famous Amos cookies, chocolate chip, 2 oz.
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THROUGHOUT THE DAY: Gatorade sports drink (3), 1.1 qt. Deja Blue bottled water (5), 2 gal. (also used to hydrate the drink powders and all MREs) Cigarettes (in sleeve pocket), 1 pack
Curtis Newcomer, photographed here at Fort Irwin, reported that he generally eats double MRE rations, but he's not gaining weight from them. When this food portrait was taken, he was preparing for his second deployment to Iraq.
California, USA, The Iraq War Veteran
Name: Felipe Adams
Age: 30; Height: 5' 10"; Weight: 135 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 2100 calories
BREAKFAST: Quaker instant oatmeal, maple and brown sugar flavored, 1.5 oz. (dry weight). Apple, 7.7 oz. Coffee, 2 fl. oz.
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LUNCH AT PETITE SARA CAFÉ: Chicken sandwich: toasted wheat bread, 4 oz., grilled chicken breast, 6 oz., grilled onion, 2 oz., lettuce, 1.5 oz., mayonnaise, 2 tsp., mustard, 1 tsp., butter, 0.5 tsp. Fruit plate of cantaloupe, grapes, kiwi, orange, pineapple, plum, strawberries, and watermelon, 7.9 oz. Honest Ade drink, orange mango, 16.9 fl. oz.
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DINNER: Chicken breast, 4.5 oz., with Tapatio hot sauce, 0.5 tsp. White rice, 4.9 oz. Salad of lettuce and tomato (tomato not in picture), 1.4 oz. Salt, sprinkled over everything, 0.5 tsp.
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AT NIGHT BEFORE BED: Dannon Activa yogurt, vanilla, 4 oz. Prune juice, 6 fl. oz.
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SNACKS AND OTHER: Doritos tortilla chips, nacho cheese flavored, 1 oz. Trident Minty Sweet Twist gum, 18 pieces. Kirkland Signature bottled water, 2.6 qt.
U.S. Army infantryman Felipe Adams was paralyzed from the waist down by a sniper's bullet at the beginning of his second tour in Baghdad. Because of the paralysis, Adams has had to learn to fuel his body differently. "I'm a big fan of steak," he says, "but it causes problems." Also, he no longer feels hunger the way he used to. "I just know that at certain times of day I've gotta eat."
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