From the Book - Regular Print - First edition.
800-1900 Calories per day: 800: Kenya, the Maasai herder -- 900: Botswana, the caretaker -- 1000: India, the Sadhu priest -- 1400: Bangladesh, the runaway train porter -- 1500: Namibia, the Himba pastoralist -- 1600: China, the extreme gamer ; USA Tennessee, candidate for obesity surgery -- 1700: USA New York, the weight-loss camper ; China, the acrobat -- 1800: Bangladesh, the factory seamstress -- 1900: Canada, the green teen ; USA Minnesota, the Mall of America staffer ; USA Pennsylvania, the calorie restrictor ; China, the citrus grower -- Why we cook / Richard Wrangham -- 200-2400 calories: 2000: Bangladesh, the microloan milker ; USA Illinois, the taxi driver ; Namibia, the diamond polisher -- 2100: Vietnam, the American War veteran ; USA California, the Iraq War veteran ; India, the urine drinker -- 2300: Chad, the teenage refugee ; USA New York, the man on the street ; Iceland, the cod fisherman -- 2400: Iran, the miniaturist's daughter ; USA New York, the model student ; India, the bicycle rickshaw driver ; Kenya, the microloan fish fryer -- The agony and the ecstacy of the calorie / Bijal P. Trivedi --
2500-2900 calories: Vietnam, the rice farmer -- 2600 Canada, the sky-high manager ; USA Minnesota, the meat grinder ; China, the college student -- 2700: USA Texas, the astronaut ; Germany, the brewer; Taiwan, the street food vendor ; Yemen, the homemaker ; USA Arizona, the carpenter's assistant -- 2900: Mexico, the rancher -- 3000-2400 calories: 3000: India, the call center operator ; the Palestinian driver -- 3100: Israel, the rabbi ; Kenya, the tea plantation farmer ; Latvia, the beekeeper -- 3200: USA Illinois, the restaurant owner ; Egypt, the camel broker ; USA Kentucky, the coal miner -- 3300: Yemen, the Qat seller -- 3400: Brazil, the Amazon grandmother -- Moving the idle masses / Mary Collins -- Portion size matters / Lisa R. Young --
3500-3900: 3500: Japan, the Sumo wrestler ; USA California, the paddle surfer
3600: USA Colorado, the greenskeeper
3700: Germany, the bread queen ; USA California, the wind farm engineer ; Australia, the lifeguard
3800: Ecuador, the mountain farmer ; USA Maine, the lobsterman
3900: Spain, the shepherd ; Latvia, the voice coach ; USA Virginia, the sustainable farmer ; Russia, the art restorer
Food taboos / Ellen Ruppel Shell
4000-4900 calories: 400: USA Texas, the U.S. Army soldier ; Italy, the friar ; Venezuela, the student in the Barrio ; Egypt, the businessman
4100: USA Illinois, the commodity farmer
4200: Spain, the bullfighter
4300: China, the welder ; Namibia, the game warden
4600: Germany, the master butcher
4700: Canada, the Inuit carver
4800: Japan,the bike messenger
4900: Tibet autonomous Region, China, the head monk ; Iran, the bread baker
The end of cooking / Michael Pollan
5000-12300 calories: 5200: Brazil, the fisherman
5400: USA Mississippi, the long-haul trucker
5600: Tibet Autonomous Region, China, the yak herder
6000: Venezuela, the oil platform chief
6500: Greenland, the Arctic hunter
6600: USA Illinois, the high-rise ironworker
8400: Namibia, the trans-Kalahari trucker
12300: Great Britain, the snacker mom
The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry