Woman shelling peas while offering her vegetables for sale on the footpath.

I remember in Kenya being surprised to see women selling little pyramids of 4 potatoes, neatly stacked on their blankets as they sat by the road in the late afternoon. Because we had always bought potatoes by the bag from the supermarket, this seemed strange to me. But of course 4 potatoes would do for a family dinner, and when people live from one day to the next, that's all you need today.