In 2014, about 2,300 people in Seoul made 250 tons of kimchi, a traditional fermented South Korean pungent vegetable dish, to donate to neighbors in preparation for winter. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption
Hidden Kitchens: The Kitchen Sisters "Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize this cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a 16th-century building." — Carlo Petrini, founder, Slow Food Movement
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Hidden Kitchens: The Kitchen Sisters
From street corners to old-fashioned traditions, communities come together through food.
A group of men clean a week's haul of seabird eggs. Arthur Bolton/California Academy of Sciences hide caption
The Gold-Hungry Forty-Niners Also Plundered Something Else: Eggs
Shokugeki no Soma is about a boy named Sōma Yukihira who dreams of becoming a chef. Courtesy of VIZ Media hide caption
Food Manga: Where Culture, Conflict And Cooking All Collide
Quiosque de Refresco do Largo da Sé, in Alfama, Lisbon. More than a century and a half ago, these ornate little kiosks began cropping up in the city's parks and plazas, becoming the heart of public life. But they fell into disrepair and all but disappeared, until an architect and an entrepreneur joined forces to restore them to their former glory and place of prominence. Paul Arps/Flickr hide caption
History, Horchata And Hope: How Classic Kiosks Are Boosting Lisbon's Public Life
"Nobody can soldier without coffee," a Union soldier wrote in 1865. (Above) Union soldiers sit with their coffee in tin cups, their hard-tack, and a kettle at their feet. Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection/Flickr The Commons hide caption
If War Is Hell, Then Coffee Has Offered U.S. Soldiers Some Salvation
Lebanese chefs celebrate in Beirut after setting a new Guinness record for what was then the biggest tub of hummus in the world — weighing over 2 tons — in October 2009. The world record effort was part of Lebanon's bid to claim hummus as its own. Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Give Chickpeas A Chance: Why Hummus Unites, And Divides, The Mideast
Blue agaves grow in a plantation for the production of tequila in Arandas, Jalisco state, Mexico, in December 2010. In the past 20 years, tequila has become fashionable all over the world, demonstrating that producers' international sales strategy has been a great success. Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Tequila Nation: Mexico Reckons With Its Complicated Spirit
Australian celebrity chef and author Kylie Kwong (left) teaches a cooking workshop at Yaama Dhiyaan, a cooking and hospitality school for at-risk aborginal youth. The Kitchen Sisters hide caption
In Yabbies And Cappuccino, A Culinary Lifeline For Aboriginal Youth
How about a date? Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images hide caption
Forbidding Fruit: How America Got Turned On To The Date
French physicist Philippe Hubert uses gamma rays to detect radioactivity in wine. "In the wine is the story of the Atomic Age," he says. C J Walker/Courtesy of William Koch hide caption
A typical Russian kitchen inside an apartment built during the early 1960s, when Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union — what later became known as Khrushchev apartments. Courtesy of The Kitchen Sisters hide caption
How Soviet Kitchens Became Hotbeds Of Dissent And Culture
Anna Matveevna came to this communal apartment in St. Petersburg in 1931, when she was 8 years old. Courtesy of European University, St. Petersburg, Russia,Colgate University and Cornell University hide caption
How Russia's Shared Kitchens Helped Shape Soviet Politics
A turnspit dog at work in a wooden cooking wheel in an inn at Newcastle, Carmarthen, Wales, in 1869. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images hide caption
Francesco Galante leads the Libera Terra, a cooperative of farmers and producers who create food and jobs outside of the Mafia's control. The Kitchen Sisters hide caption
A sign from a fast food restaurant in Earlimart. Courtesy of The Kitchen Sisters hide caption
CB Stubblefield Courtesy of Sharon Ely hide caption
Sam Clark, chef and Manor Garden allotment holder. Kitchen Sisters hide caption
An accordionist leads his band at the annual Sheepherders Ball. Roland Studio, ca. 1950. Courtesy John Odiaga. Basque Museum & Cultural Center hide caption
Children eat hot dogs at Idaho's Minidoka Internment Camp. National Archives; Densho Project hide caption