World's Kitchens Show the Hearts of Homes
Published 31 Oct 2017, 14:05 GMT, Updated 9 Apr 2021, 11:49 BST
A village scene in Laika, China.
A baby lays in a carrier next to the stove in the Santa Marta favela in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photograph by John Stanmeyer, Vii, National Geographic
A young boy climbs up a kitchen cabinet in his Lincoln, Nebraska home. The well-stocked cabinets are a reminder of disparities in food security around the world.
Photograph by Joël Sartore, National Geographic
Dina Ignatiussen prepares game birds in her kitchen sink in Isortoq, Greenland. The small Inuit settlement has a population of just 64.
Photograph by Matthieu Paley, National Geographic
A family makes chapati sprinkled with apricot oil in their home in Pakistan’s Hunza region. Meals are an important family get together for the Hunza people.
Photograph by Matthieu Paley, National Geographic
A woman in Tangier Island, Virginia displays fresh-baked rolls in this 1973 National Geographic photo.
Photograph by David Alan Harvey, National Geographic
A miner and his family eat in their underground kitchen in Coober Pedy, Australia. This photo appeared in a 1963 issue of National Geographic.
Photograph by W. Robert Moore, National Geographic
A father and son pose in their kitchen in the small ranching town of Datil, New Mexico. This photo ran in a 1979 National Geographic story about the Continental Divide trail.
Photograph by Nicholas Devore III, National Geographic
A mother and one of her four children, stand in the kitchen of their Osage, Iowa home. Both parents are unemployed, and have resorted to canning and foraging for food in the wild.
Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic
Pots and dishes on top of a table serve as the kitchen in this home in Aliabad, Pakistan.
Photograph by Matthieu Paley, National Geographic
A boy sits in a kitchen in Budesti, a rural village in the Maramures region of Romania.
Photograph by Rena Effendi, National Geographic
A Transkei family cooks and eats on the floor in this 1977 National Geographic photo. Created in 1959 under apartheid, Transkei was an unofficial republic of South Africa where millions of Xhosa-speaking blacks were forced to live.
Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic
A woman watches as her granddaughter prepares a traditional Surinamese cake in the kitchen of a retirement home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Photograph by Gerd Ludwig, National Geographic
A farmer cuts hair in his kitchen on Sark Island, Great Britain. This photo appeared in a 1971 National Geographic article about the Channel Islands.
Photograph by James L. Amos, National Geographic
Student chefs prepare vegetables over flaming woks in the city of Hefei, China.
Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic
A four-year-old boy prays for his father, who was kidnapped by jihadists in Iraq, in this 2008 photo. Like many Arab Christians, this boy and his family were driven from their home in Iraq and relocated to Syria.
Photograph by Ed Kashi, National Geographic