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Lucrecia Quesada

Hand adding icing sugar to a cake in a mold in a kitchen

Eric Floberg

Food being cooked on a stove top with flames

James Ransom

A view of vegetables sitting in front of a pot

GS & Co

A chef seasoning salmon fillets on a cutting board set on a tree stump.

A chef carefully arranging fresh sushi pieces on a wooden tray.

Jakob Wandel

United States

Sunlight illuminates a stack of rustic, cloth-lined wicker baskets used for proofing bread dough.

OchreOchre

A man is standing at the kitchen counter chopping vegetables

Lizzy Rollins

Charleston

South Carolina

A man wearing an apron and a baseball cap works in a kitchen, reaching up to a wooden shelf.

Simon Ribadeneira

Italy

Apulia

A person making food on large trays

Lindsay Kreighbaum

Los Angeles

California

a plate of carrots in various styles of cooked, next to a cream bowl and promagrantes.

Olivier Romano

Japan

Tokyo

An anonymous worker in a white shirt is partially obscured by a dirty, weathered, and grimy window.

Annika Kafcaloudis

A person adds food to a steaming pan with onions in it

Gingerbread cookies decorated with icing on a cooling rack.

New York

A professional chef adds a finishing drizzle of oil to a delicious appetizer in a busy restaurant kitchen.

Charlotte Jane

A portable fire pit burns with bright orange flames, fueled by charcoal and kindling, as a wooden stick is used to tend the fire.

Aileen Schack

Berlin

Germany

A cocktail with ice sits on a wooden board next to a rolling pin and fresh pasta dough being prepared for ravioli.

Anna Letson

Cook finishes meat dishes with green sauce by adding crispy onions.

Rachel Soh

Singapore

skewers of meat on a grill at night, with visible smoke and flames, and a man's arm standing nearby

Marine Toux

Taghazout

Morocco

Souss-Massa

Traditional Moroccan terracotta braziers covered in ash sit on a wooden table next to a street food menu.

Donuts are being deep fried in a large pot while a hand holds one of them in a strainer.

Allegra D'Agostini

Pair of hands closing a ravioli.

A large pork loin roast is being seared to a golden brown in a pot, held carefully with metal tongs during the cooking process.

Aslin Castañeda

A chef with vibrant red hair works at a stainless steel countertop in a professional kitchen with a window view of the outdoors.

A chicken being cooked on a charcoal grill.

Dominic Episcopo

Piece of meat tied with string, placed on crumpled brown paper.

Gene Yoon

A homemade bread wrapped in a cloth and a knife

Philippe Degroote

Palma

Spain

Balearic Islands

A baker with flour on their hands mixes dried fruits and other ingredients into fresh bread dough on a wooden surface.

Llucmajor

A smiling woman with dark braided hair wearing an apron prepares homemade cookies on a baking sheet in a modern kitchen.

Tanya Yatsenko

an adult is lighting the burner on a cooker as two girls watch closely

Nicolas Blum

Lyon

France

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

In a cozy kitchen setting, a hand liberally shakes cinnamon from a metal shaker, garnishing a slice of a warm, buttered bagel that rests on a rustic blue plate.

A person working with food in a room

Fresh garlic cloves, lemon zest, and sprigs of sage, rosemary, and thyme arranged on a rustic wooden cutting board beside a knife, with raw chicken pieces and salt nearby on a marble countertop.

Sara Ghedina

A raw T-bone steak sits on a black surface.

Daniel Goh

A person in a red shirt opens a clear plastic rain cover near a street stall in China, their form slightly obscured.

Lee Morton

Missoula

Montana

A human hand holding a white kitchen utensil to stir a pot that is cooking food on top of a rock with coals and there is another pot next to it

Oakland

Two people making food in a room.

An egg is frying in a small iron skillet.

A person's hand presses a round cutter into a large sheet of green pasta dough on a floured surface.

Reed Schick

Knoxville

Tennessee

A woman wearing a green tank top and jeans stirs food in a metal pot over the kitchen sink.

Heather Willensky

A chef wearing a black glove sprinkles green herbs over a fresh salad with shredded red cabbage in a large metal mixing bowl.

Mike O'Hara

Two young girls gather around a fire pit at a campsite in a sunny forest clearing, with a rustic cabin in the background.

A chef carefully pours a rich sauce from a spoon onto a beautifully presented dish of sliced meat.

Two people cooking together in a kitchen

A woman cooking food in a kitchen

Baker preparing loaves of bread in a commercial kitchen

Danielle Acken

A camera shot of a pie straight down.

A baker presses their fingers into raw focaccia dough topped with rosemary and olive oil in a metal baking pan.

series of vegetables and fruits sliced and placed on a flat surface

Isaiah Jay

Pasta dough rolled into nest-like shapes and sprinkled with flour.

Magali Polverino

Buenos Aires

Argentina

an elderly person is separating fresh noodles

Uzo Onyejiaka

Barcelona

Catalonia

Woman standing outdoors sifts powdered sugar onto a fruit tart.

Pennsylvania

A smiling woman looks at her phone while preparing a fresh salad in a sunlit kitchen.

A person adds filling to macarons

Bryant Belknap

Woman wearing a cap and overalls, standing next to a kitchen sink, washing a glass under running tap water and a boy in the background in front of a mixer.

Mandy Sham

A team of three chefs works together in the fast-paced, dimly lit kitchen of a restaurant.

Bekah Wriedt

Mexico City

Mexico

Some oil being poured from a jar onto a plate.

Julia Stotz

Traditional meat and tomato kebabs are roasting over the open flames of a hot barbecue grill.

A person spreading a topping on a slice of bread.

Edward Jose

United Kingdom

England

Two clams cooking on a grill

A close-up of a person's hands holding freshly made green tagliatelle pasta over a flour-dusted work surface.

A person making pastries in a room

Woman in the kitchen holding a bowl and a brush, spreading glaze on a batch of cookies.

A person using a knife to spread sauce on a wheel of Brie being prepared for baking.

Jonathan Elyea

A baker’s hands gently shape elongated loaves of soft dough on a floured wooden table, surrounded by woven proofing baskets filled with rising bread.

A man and a woman in white uniforms are working in a dimly lit professional kitchen, with the man in the foreground preparing a dish.

Hands tearing bread covered with sesame seeds alongside a creamy sauce.

Raw pasta in square shape being cooked in a frying pan.

Peter Jonker

Red, orange, green, and blue orecchiette pasta shapes are drying on a mesh screen within a wooden frame.

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