Meat Culture is one of the most fascinating topics to me. Whenever I travel, I search out how meat is handled in markets. Can you imagine walking through the Greenmarket in Union Square and seeing this? People would flip. It puts it in perspective about what is “safe” when handing raw meat.
The distance crops travel from the fields to your dinning room table is baffling. Its easy to forget about the hard physical labor that is spent, well before it even makes it onto a delivery truck. These are photos of some extreme cases.
Or maybe this is how you get your lunch?
The famous Dabbawala or Tiffin Wallahs of Mumbai…Photo taken April 2008.
Tiffin Wallah translates as one who carries the box. Tiffin is an old English word for a light lunch, and also the name of the multi-compartment metal lunch box that carries it. The Tiffin Wallah originated over a century ago when the many Indians working for British companies disliked the food served at work. Tiffin service was created to bring home cooking to the workplace. Today the city’s 5,000 tiffin-wallahs deliver 200,000 tiffin-boxes filled with home-cooked food each day. According to a recent survey, there is only one mistake in every 16,000,000 deliveries and the system has registered a performance rating of 99.999999. Prince Charles is a fan and patron of the Tiffin Wallahs and countless businesses and corporations study the system to learn of its success and efficiency.
I went back home to LA for the holidays and got my much needed fill of non-city things like hiking and swimming. But this time around I decided to do a bit of exploring in an area of LA I know very little about…Downtown.
I have my old time favorites, like Grand Central Market and Union station but I got to discover a few new spots like the Bradbury building and the Flower district. That’s where this photo was taken. Nothing too ground breaking about how she is carrying her flowers, just a quiet glimpse of this downtown moment.
Just another day at the grocery store…never really thought about how I would carry this if I had to, but I guess this would be the way.
Sellers ON water, Halong Bay
Water scarcity in Yola, Adamawa state forces people to search for water. A truck costs about a dollar and half. Its really hard.
Water seller, Jos, Nigeria
· Images are either from personal archives or borrowed from the web-o-sphere.
