This photographer captured what kids' lunches look like around the world, and found something interesting about the average Indian diet.
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00:00There were a lot of things that surprised me, a kid from Sicily, for instance, and a
00:27kid from Los Angeles, a generation ago, their diets would have been very different.
00:32But now we're seeing what they're eating is kind of converging.
00:36It's almost as if their parents were shopping in the same global superstore, because their
00:42kids are eating bread, and white bread, and pasta, and pizza, and hamburgers.
00:50By the time I show up, the journals are finished, and they're handed off to a collection of
01:00cooks.
01:01So for each shoot, I needed about three people in the kitchen, working around the clock,
01:07making all these meals.
01:14I wanted to kind of represent a range of areas geographically, so I'm kind of trying to cover
01:21every continent, if possible.
01:23And then I chose countries that had seen dramatic changes in the diets over the last couple
01:30of generations.
01:40A medium Domino's pizza in India is 13 bucks, which is way beyond the means of your average
01:47person in India.
01:48One of the kids I photographed named Anshal lives in a 10 by 10 foot construction, little
01:55hut on a construction site.
01:56It's aluminum hut.
01:58And her dad makes less than $5 a day.
02:02And yet, Anshal eats a pretty wholesome diet of okra, and cauliflower curries, and lentils,
02:09and homemade roti that her mother makes by hand on the floor of their hut.
02:13And so even with very little means, you have people in India who are eating pretty well.
02:18I mean, you know, pretty wholesome diet.
02:21And they're eating better oftentimes than some middle class kids.
02:35And how many of the foods that you eat come from, you know, a garden or come from the
02:40farm?
02:41And how many of the foods you eat come from a package?
02:43We're kind of at a tipping point, I think, where the balance of what kids are eating
02:47is shifting away from wholesome homemade foods to package processed foods, and, you know,
02:54snack foods and junk food all over the world.