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 Peter Menzel/ASA / ASA, GER04.0087.xf1brw (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Working together in the kitchen to prepare dinner for guests, Jrg and Susanne prepare rouladen, a traditional German entre consisting of pickles, mustard, and Westphalian bacon, rolled up in a thick slice of beef, cooked, and served in rich brown gravy. This is a favorite meal of the Melander family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) /// The Melander family of Bargteheide, Germany, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeksÕ worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Jrg, 45, and Susanne, 43, with sons Kjell, 10, and Finn, 14. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 132-133 for a family portrait [Image number GER04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeksÕ worth of food, and the familyÕs detailed food list with total cost.)
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 Peter Menzel/ASA / ASA, GER04.0009.xxf1rw (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Jrg and Susanne Melander prepare rouladen, a traditional German entre consisting of pickles, mustard, and Westphalian bacon, rolled up in a thick slice of beef, cooked, and served in rich brown gravy. (From a photographic gallery of images of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 54) /// This is a favorite meal of the Melander family of Bargteheide, Germany. They are one of the thirty families featured, with a weeksÕ worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Jrg, 45, and Susanne, 43, with sons Kjell, 10, and Finn, 14. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 132-133 for a family portrait [Image number GER04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeksÕ worth of food, and the familyÕs detailed food list with total cost.) /// Chemically altering plant and animal tissue by exposing it to heat is one of the oldest and certainly the most distinctive practices in human cultureÑHomo sapiens, as Alfred W. Crosby points out in his essay in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, is the only species that cooks (p. 52-53). Although the kitchens in these images are wildly different in location and appearance, all of them form the center of a home, even if only temporarily. Kitchens are where families take care of themselves. Cooking is a fundamental task that women, throughout the ages, have undertaken.
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 Peter Menzel/ASA / ASA, GER04.0031.xf1brw (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Working together in the kitchen to prepare dinner for guests, Jrg and Susanne prepare rouladen, a traditional German entre consisting of pickles, mustard, and Westphalian bacon, rolled up in a thick slice of beef, cooked, and served in rich brown gravy. This is a favorite meal of the Melander family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) /// The Melander family of Bargteheide, Germany, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeksÕ worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Jrg, 45, and Susanne, 43, with sons Kjell, 10, and Finn, 14. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 132-133 for a family portrait [Image number GER04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeksÕ worth of food, and the familyÕs detailed food list with total cost.)
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