What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets


The Diamond Polisher
Mestilde Shigwedha: Windhoek, Namibia
Mestilde Shigwedha's simple childhood diet, growing up in a small village near the Angola border, evolved to include more dietary options. This because her highly skilled work as a diamond polisher in Namibia's capital city allows her to afford food and housing that she says she didn't know existed before moving to Windhoek. She now eats more global fare, but prefers the comfort foods of her youth.
From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.

Age: 28 • Height: 5'1" • Weight: 120 pounds
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ONE DAY’S FOOD in March
CALORIES  2000

BREAKFAST DURING WORK BREAK Wheat bread, 3.8 oz • Apple, 5 oz • Black tea, 10 fl oz; with sugar, 1 tbsp; and nondairy powdered creamer, 0.5 tsp

LUNCH Spaghetti, 10.7 oz; with tripe (beef stomach), 2.5 oz; and potatoes, 0.8 oz; eaten in a sauce made from the beef broth flavored with onion, chili powder, and Knorr vegetable soup mix, powdered, 3.8 oz • Black tea, 10 fl oz; with sugar, 1 tbsp; and nondairy powdered creamer, 0.5 tsp

DINNER Millet and cornmeal porridge, 13.7 oz • Horse mackerel, 7.2 oz; with sauce of onion, tomato, and Taste-Mate curry powder, 6 oz • Black tea, 10 fl oz; with sugar, 1 tbsp; and nondairy powdered creamer, 0.5 tsp

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