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James Ransom

A person making some chicken in a room

Heather Willensky

liquid is drizzling into a bow with food in it

Blanca Ruedas

A chef in an apron carefully arranges a colorful heirloom tomato salad on a white plate in a busy kitchen.

Interior architecture of wooden shelves with porcelain and glass kitchen utensils

Several pieces of dough cut into small squares with fork marks on top, spread out on a floured surface.

Roman Fox

A man in an apron stands in a sunbeam while stirring a large industrial pot in a kitchen.

Edward Jose

United Kingdom

England

Some food cooking on a grill

Man holds a plate as he cooks fish outside on the grill

OchreOchre

Man reading a recipe in the kitchen with the countertop filled with vegetables and greens.

Aslin Castañeda

A chef claps floury hands over a countertop covered with an assortment of fresh, colorful homemade pasta.

Dominic Episcopo

Some meat cut into shapes on a table

Fresh ingredients being cut on a board to prepare a healthy meal.

Sara and Phil

Los Angeles

United States

California

A woman follows a recipe on her tablet while holding a carrot, surrounded by fresh produce in a sunlit kitchen.

A skillet with a potato casserole in it is sitting on a metal grate.

A creamy mixture being stirred with a wooden spoon.

Apples, lemons and watermelon grilling over a charcoal fire.

Caterina Nasini

Athens

Greece

A person wearing a camouflage apron uses a knife to chop the heads off of small fish on a cutting board.

A baker wearing gloves and an oven mitt pulls a hot tray of freshly baked everything bagels out of a commercial oven rack.

GS & Co

Hot dogs and buns are being cooked on a warmer

omar belattar

pieces of chicken are being cooked on kebab sticks

Bryant Belknap

A group of people are sitting around a campfire and roasting hotdogs.

Poultry being prepared with roasted vegetables in a pan

A chef in a white glove carefully drizzles dressing from a spoon onto a fresh wedge salad topped with diced tomatoes and herbs.

A woman's hands grabbing stacked cookies and cream off of the countertop.

A person in a white apron and gloves cuts a large, whole watermelon with a knife on a blue cutting board.

Lizzy Rollins

New York

A close-up of order tickets on a spike at a restaurant counter with busy chefs working in the kitchen.

A rectangular piece of meat, heavily coated in white salt and surrounded by dark red beet shavings, rests on a gray tray lined with a thin white cloth.

Ryan Belk

Charleston

South Carolina

A chef slides a fresh pizza from a peel into a large, hot commercial oven to bake.

Philippe Degroote

Palma

Spain

Balearic Islands

Freshly prepared portions of seeded dough rest on a floured wooden counter in a bakery before baking.

A freshly baked pizza is carefully pulled from a traditional, glowing brick masonry oven with a pizza peel.

Tomatoes stewed with rosemary and garlic.

A person is cutting a piece of meat into strips on a wooden board.

Trays with croissants and pains AU chocolate ready to bake.

A smiling red haired woman rolling out pastry in a kitchen.

Vinalhaven

Maine

a woman smiles as she puts sausages on a grate on top of a campfire

Reed Schick

Knoxville

Tennessee

A person's hands wash fresh red peppers under running water from a stainless steel tap in a kitchen sink.

Laura Scherb

Chicago

Illinois

Two electric mixer beaters covered in thick, white whipped cream lie on crumpled parchment paper.

A crunchy cheese pizza with pepperoni slices in a frying pan.

Jessica Lim

A person prepares a meal with fresh vegetables in a sunlit kitchen while looking at a recipe on their phone.

Meringue sweets of different shapes and colors, arranged on greaseproof paper.

burger meat cooking in a cast iron skillet.

Lee Morton

Detroit

Michigan

a man is cooking large pieces of meat on a grill outside

A variety of fresh, handmade pasta, including colorful ravioli and tagliatelle, is beautifully arranged and dusted with flour.

A blonde woman wearing a sleeveless blue top and jeans stands outdoors, using tongs to turn large cuts of meat cooking on a metal grill grate over an open wood fire nestled in rocks, with pine trees and golden sunlight

Various pieces of green vegetables in a white pan with a wooden utensil on top

A person is taking a baking sheet with cookies out of an oven.

Coffee beans being roasted in a cast iron pan

Hand putting grated cheese on pizza dough with tomato sauce

Two hands press down on the lid of a gray cocotte resting on a round wooden trivet atop a wrinkled blue linen cloth.

Gregory Tauziac

Paris

France

Île-de-France

A hot, hearty stew is being served from a steaming stainless steel pot onto a decorative plate in a kitchen.

Food cooking on a grill

Cedric Terrell

A person prepares a fresh salad in a sunlit kitchen, scraping chopped vegetables from a cutting board into a glass bowl.

A couple of pork ears preparing for cooking

Italian chopped and peeled tomatoes being cooked with garlic

A bakery or café with shelves full of bread, cakes and kitchen utensils, and a person wearing an apron at the front.

Jovana Šurlan

A close-up, top-down view of whole roasted eggplants with wrinkled, shiny dark skins resting in a baking pan.

Pieces of raw meat arranged to represent the map of the Hawaiian Islands.

Daniel Brittain

A chef bastes a thick-cut, bone-in steak with sizzling butter, garlic, and herbs in a frying pan on a gas stove.

Katelyn Perry

Guatemala

A person sprinkles fresh purple herbs as a final garnish on a large leafy green salad with nuts in a rustic terracotta bowl.

Pennsylvania

A smiling woman checks her blood sugar levels with a glucose meter while preparing a healthy meal in her kitchen.

Jakob Wandel

Raw sourdough bread dough covered with sesame seeds proves in a banneton basket under dramatic sunlight.

Morocco

Three traditional terracotta tagine pots sit on charcoal braziers, ready for cooking in a rustic outdoor setting.

Felipe Neves

Sydney

Australia

New South Wales

From behind, the silhouette of a chef is framed by rising steam in a dimly lit restaurant kitchen.

A person mixing ingredients in a transparent bowl.

Chocolate cake batter is portioned into two round metal baking pans, surrounded by various kitchen utensils and splatters on a grey surface.

Person wearing safety gloves slicing red potato on mandoline on kitchen counter.

A bunch of sliced jalapeno peppers on a table with a couple of knives next to it

Cut up pieces of pork belly in an aluminum pan with a brown glaze at the bottom

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