MEX03.0007.xxf1 In what may be a disappearing custom, shoppers throng Cuernavaca’s daily public market, inspecting the alarmingly fresh meat and picking up snacks at the many small restaurants inside (shown here). The crowds are large, but not as large as they used to be. Increasingly, Mexicans are choosing to shop at big chain supermarkets; indeed, Walmex, a Walmart subsidiary, is already Mexico’s biggest private employer. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 225). /// This image is featured alongside the Casales family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The Casales family of Cuernavaca, Mexico, 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 Marco Antonio, 29, and Alma Casales Gutierrez, 30, and their children, Emmanuel, 7, and Bryan, 5, Arath 1. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 218-219 for a family portrait [Image number MEX03.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks’ worth of food, and the family’s detailed food list with total cost.)