It's time for another Wordwide Photohunt!

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This week's prompt is "cooking"

You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.

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Venice: from the Rialto Market last November -

Druze baker making flatbread at a street stall outside the Carmel market, Tel Aviv, Israel 2003. She bakes it on that large domed surface on the right. You eat the warm bread rolled around labne (thick yogurt) zataar (spice blend) and fresh herbs. Delicious.

Every year on the last weekend of August at the Festival of Nations in St. Louis, Tower Grove Park is turned into a huge outdoor world dining tour.

The participants who represent their home countries are all current members of refugee communities which have been resettled in St. Louis.

Many, if not most, of them have horrific stories they could be telling about the atrocities they fled before finding a new home here.

But, this is a joyous occasion where they're able to share with us the wonders of their own cultures and cuisines.

We're having a SlowTrav GTG this summer during the weekend of the Festival of Nations. It isn't too late to decide to join us. Check our our GTG thread.

Here are ladies at the Eritrean food booth cooking their national dishes.

This happy group has just finished stuffing these beautiful ravoli and are so proud of our finished product! We had so much fun with Letizia, our teacher, at Alla Maonna del Piatto in Assisi. I can't believe that this was almost 4 years ago already! Have got to get back to Assisi.

Seasonal ingredients at Eataly, Torino.

This is from our 2006 trip to Turkey. The woman is in our favorite restaurant Mesçale Café in the Arasta Bazaar. She is making gözleme (flat tortilla like bread stuffed like crepes with spinach and/or cheese).

The beginnings of our dinner at our cooking class with Alessandra.

Taking it one step further from bugalu's photo:

I am one determined and focused pasta roller!

Cooking class in Marcello and Raffaella's Bologna home.

Pokey

Here's a pancake-maker with pizzaz on the Island of Rhodes.

The portable chicken rotisserie at the outdoor market in Montrichard, France. Yummy chicken and potatoes... I dream about the roast chicken in France. I am serious.

Not really cooking, but preparing...
A street vendor in Istanbul squeezing fresh pomegranate and orange juice, 2008.

It is always hard to decide which part of cooking we enjoy most -

learning from Tuscan women like Iolanda - who is 84 years old and worked at La Chiusa for 27 years.

Or teaching our grandaughter and her friends in Dallas -

Pesce al Sale is still cooking when it comes to the table.
Ristorante Ricchi, Piazza Santo Spirito, Florence

Hubby at first Paris cooking class -- Cookn' With Class in Montmartre, with Chef Eric Fradeau hosting. Birthday present from wifey (me). He enjoyed it IMMENSELY and wants to take another class next trip to learn about pastry ... Fine with me, as I get to taste the "practice." (P.S. Hope photo comes through -- first attempt ...)

Ok Sandi showed the beginning of the cooking class, I am going to show the end of it -but the picture was taken and sent to me by someone of Gail's group..

My husband James shows off his culinary mastery in the kitchen of our rental at the Palazzetto da Schio in Venice, with some radicchio from Treviso.

Sandi and Ale,

That is hilarious!

jan

This is the anti pasti table I made for my friends.

A bona fide Philly steak sandwich in the making, at Jim's Steaks on South St.

Making ragu in Rome-is-Home apartment to take to Montisi.

Vendor putting the finishing touches on a version of hoi tod kanom krok(หอยทอดขนมครก), a Thai mussel appetizer made with eggs. From Songkran Festival 2006, Wat Pasantidhamma in Carrollton, Virginia.

I took this in 2002 when spending two days with one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes on earth. They are called the Hadza people and are semi-nomadic, roaming the Rift Valley in Tanzania. They are protected almost as an endangered species by the Tanzania government. They hunt with poison arrrows and dig for tubers daily. They are the only people in Tanzania allowed to hunt and kill the giraffe--the national animal.

Here a boy had just come in with a bat-eared fox which was thrown on the fire, the hair singed off and the still uncooked flesh torn apart and eaten.

Greece waiting the ferry to Kythira

La cuoca at Trattoria La Mangiatoia in Florence, dishing up my favorite---spaghetti alla carbonara!

I really enjoyed the crepes in Paris!

Cooking at home in her hutong neighborhood near Houhai Lake in Beijing - the kitchen had all the updated conveniences, but was tiny. Dunno what she made.

My wife, Meg, and our friend, Julie Kirk, preparing pranzo in our kitchen in Casperia