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Daily bread1/9/2024 Meissa Ndiaye, 11, Dakar, Senegal, photographed August 30, 2017. Read on for our exclusive interview and pick up a copy of Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World. We had the opportunity to speak with Segal about the impetus for the project, the challenges of working on a global scale, and what he hopes people take away from the work. In fact, some of the healthiest diets in the world come from low-income cultures where the focus is on fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and meat where processed junk foods are luxury items. While in the United States lower income families tend to eat more snack foods because of their low cost, in other countries the trend is reversed. Segal's work is also an interesting commentary on the global economy and how this effects eating habits. From Los Angeles to Kuala Lumpur, the cultures depicted are a fascinating look at how different we are-yet how similar we're becoming. These foods were then prepared and laid out around them while Segal captured their image from above. Each child was asked to document exactly what they'd eaten during the course of a week. His new book, Daily Bread, spreads across 120 pages and details the stories behind the portraits. By focusing on the diets of children, whose lifelong eating habits are created in these formative years, Segal's stunning photographs speak to themes of nutrition, class, and culture. With childhood obesity on the rise and globalization homogenizing nutrition, photographer Gregg Segal set out to discover what a week's worth of food looked like around the world. Please read our disclosure for more info. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Mierra strives to be the top student in her class and wants to be a doctor while Tharkish will be happy with a top 3 finish after examinations and pictures himself an IT engineer. Mierra loves to read and play badminton and snakes and ladders while her brother is into chess, carom and surfing the internet. Mierra says her diet is healthy because her mom avoids foods with preservatives, additives and msg, though after her Daily Bread portrait, she still thinks she could eat less processed food. His first taste was Urad Dal Porridge, an Indian baby food made with dal, rice, coconut, cardamon, and jaggery (concentrated date palm sap). Tharkish doesn’t like onions because they taste weird and leave a funny smell in his mouth. Tharkish’s favorite food is Puttu, steamed ground rice layered with coconut and topped with bananas and palm sugar. Her earliest memory of food is rice porridge, her comfort food whenever she falls sick. Mierra dislikes the pungent smell of meat and traces of blood. Their dad works as a gaffer in film production and their mom is a homemaker and does most of the cooking though on weekends they eat KFC, Pizza Hut or Chinese takeout. Their apartment block is full of friends and noisy in a good way. Tharkish and Mierra live with their mom and dad in a public housing project in Bukit Jalil, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur. Tharkish and Mierra’s roots in Malaysia begin with their great-grandfather who migrated from South India to build a better future, but only found work as a rubber tapper before being conscripted by the Japanese to build the “Death Railway” from Siam to Burma in 1943. Tharkish Sri Ganesh (10) and Mierra Sri Varrsha, (8) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, photographed March 26, 2017.
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