PHI04.0002.xxf1Jammed into the narrow valley between Manila Bay and the Sierra Madre Mountains, Metro Manila’s more than 14 million people, many of them very poor, use every square foot of available space. Makeshift shanties jostle high-rise apartments—neighborhoods built on stilts spill into tidal flats, rivers, and the sea. Backed up against a set of railroad tracks, this street-food vendor squeezes her modest business into a space hardly bigger than a U.S. walk-in closet. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 237). /// This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The Cabaña family of Malina, the Philippines, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks’ worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Angelita Cabaña, 51, her husband, Eduardo Cabaña, 56 and their children, Eduardo, Jr., 22, Charles (called Nyok), 20, and Christian, 13 (called Ian). Extended family includes Eduardo Jr.’s wife Abigail, 22, their daughter and son Alexandra, 3, and Dave, 2. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 234-235 for a family portrait [Image number PHI04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks’ worth of food, and the family’s detailed food list with total cost.)