(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Çelik family in the main room of their three-room apartment in Istanbul, Turkey, with a week's worth of food. Mêhmêt Çelik, 40, stands between his wife Melahat, 33 (in black), and her mother, Habibe Fatma Kose, 51. Sitting on the couch are their children (back to front) Mêtin, 16, Semra, 15, and Aykut, 8. Cooking method: gas stove. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer. /// The Çelik family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 252). Food expenditure for one week: $145.88 USD. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 253 for the family's detailed food list.)
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