You Are What You Eat: Inside America's Refrigerators

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Carpenter/Photographer

San Antonio, TX, 3-Person Household, 12-Point Buck, 2008

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Bartender

San Antonio, TX, one-Person Household, goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4 pm daily, 2008

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Midwife/middle school science teacher

San Antonio, TX, three-person household (including dog), first week after deciding to eat locally grown vegetables, 2008

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Street Advertiser

San Antonio, TX, one-person household, lives on $432 fixed monthly income, 2007

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Disabled

Marathon,TX, two-person household, weighed 390 pounds earlier this year, 2007

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Owner of defunct amusement park

Alpine, TX, one-person household, former WW II Prisoner of War, 2007

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Retired train conductor

Jackson, MS, one-person household, started Meals on Wheels in his community,
2008

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Red Cross board member

San Antonio, TX, one-person household, sleeps with a loaded .45 pistol on nightstand, 2008

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Restaurant owner

Waco, TX, one-person household, has a photographic memory for useless information., 2009

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Documentary filmmakers

San Diego, CA, three-person household, efforts have helped send millions of dollars to children in Uganda, 2008

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Botanist

Ft. Wayne, IN, one-person household, feels more comfortable among flora and fauna of his era than people, 2008

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Community volunteer

San Angelo, TX, one-person household, completely blind and lives alone, 2007

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Construction worker/house wife

San Angelo, TX, four-person household, wife wakes every morning at 4 am to cook breakfast for family, 2007

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From Photographer Mark Menjivar's latest series: You Are What You Eat.

Anesthesiologist

Ft. Worth , TX, three-person household, youngest son works on lobster boat in Alaska, day after Thanksgiving, 2007

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Short order cook

Marathon,TX, two-person household, she can bench press over 300 pounds, 2007

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Graphic designer/print shop owner

Two-person household, founder of www.DeliverUsFromLiberals.com, 2008

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School crossing guard/nursing home assistant

Austin, TX, six-person household, parents and three adult children live in an efficiency apartment, 2007

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