A Worldwide Day's Worth of Food
Vietnam, The Rice Farmer
Name: Nguyen Van Theo
Age: 51; Height: 5' 4"; Weight: 110 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 2500 calories
BREAKFAST: Rice noodles, 2.7 oz. (dry weight), boiled and eaten with fish sauce, 1.5 tbsp.
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LUNCH: Pork loin cooked with bean sprouts and green onion, 3.6 oz. Pork back cooked with pickled mustard greens, 3 oz. White rice, 1.4 lb.
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DINNER: Pork back seasoned with fish sauce and caramel sugar, 1.6 oz. Eggs, from his chickens, fried with green onion, 2.6 oz. Spinach and spinach water broth, 5.2 oz. White rice, 1.4 lb. Homemade ruou thuoc (strong rice wine with herbs), 1.9 fl. oz.
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THROUGHOUT THE DAY: Green tea, 7.8 fl. oz. Tobacco, 0.5 oz. Boiled rainwater, 1.6 qt.
In this food portrait, a pile of last year's rice straw lies in the background. It is used as fuel to boil water in the family's small kitchen. Cisterns collect rainwater for drinking and cooking.