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Hard Work

Though most rice is now milled by machine, rural families still break the hull with hand machinery. We saw a family picking up spilled rice from a dirt road grain by grain. Nothing is wasted.
Eating!

April 9th 2008
Buying and preparing food are not occupations for the faint of heart. As you enter one of the open-air markets where everyone shops daily, you realize that not all food was born in a plastic package in your local grocery store. Most homes do not have refrigerators, so women spend a huge amount of time shopping and preparing whatever they can buy fresh from the market each day. In Bangkok, ... read more
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