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Kibet Serem, a tea plantation farmer, with his day’s worth in his tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day’s worth of food in the month of February was 3100 kcals. He is 25 years if age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 143 pounds. He cares for this small tea plantation that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. MODEL RELEASED.