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A Feast for the Eyes: Glimpses of Meal Time Around the Globe

Meal time with family and friends throughout the day.

Thanks Kahindo Wasakundi makes a paste from cassava and maize flour while her brother Asher Saruti, 6, looks on in Kirumba, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The paste is added to a sauce made from beans and sombe, a stew of cassava leaves.

Merveille Kavira Luneghe, GPJ Democratic Republic of Congo

Irene Colin, center, eats sweet bread for a snack with her children, Héctor Rojas Colin, left, 9, and Sophie Rojas Colin, 11, in San Pedro Atzompa, State of Mexico, Mexico.

Aline Suárez del Real, GPJ Mexico

Chandramaya Kharel, right, serves lentils, rice, vegetables, chutney, salad and mohi, a yogurt drink, for dinner to the rest of the family, from left, Devi Kharel, Dinesh Kharel and Nirmala Upreti, in Birtamod, Jhapa district, Nepal.

Mayamitu Neupane, GPJ Nepal

Delvis Troche cooks rice with pigeon peas and bacalaíto, a salted codfish fritter, during Festival de Juegos Típicos, a traditional games festival in Rincón, Puerto Rico.

Coraly Cruz Mejías, GPJ Puerto Rico

Families drink bupu, a frothy atole beverage, and eat green and sweet Cambray tamales for dinner at traditional food stands at the 2 de Noviembre market, one of the area's most popular markets, in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Marissa Revilla, GPJ Mexico

Sushila Rana cooks egg chatamari, a Nepalese rice crepe, for customers at a restaurant in Lalitpur district, Bagmati province, Nepal.

Yam Kumari Kandel, GPJ Nepal

From left, Joseph Amani, 6, Isae Fumbwa, 10, Claudine Mwamini, 12, and Esther Furaha, 13, eat cassava leaves, called sombe, mixed with beef shank and rice for lunch in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Noella Nyirabihogo, GPJ Democratic Republic of Congo

From left, Chantsalmaa Sodnomsuren, 1-year-old Anar Badraa, Gurtsoo Jambaldorj, Tserennadmid Jambaldorj and two guests eat buuz, Mongolian steamed dumplings filled with meat, for lunch at Jambaldorj's home in Murun, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia.

Dolgormaa Sandagdorj, GPJ Mongolia

Ragu Gupta makes chaats, traditional savory snacks, for customers at his food cart in Birendranagar, Surkhet district, Nepal.

Chandani Kathayat, GPJ Nepal

Elders eat dinner at an ashram, a spiritual monastery, in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Some elders join ashrams in their older age to be part of a community and receive support.

Vijayatharsiny Thinesh, GPJ Sri Lanka

Volunteers with Unidos por una Sonrisa offer beverages and snacks — along with plenty of sonrisas, or smiles — to the people waiting in front of General Hospital of Mexico in Mexico City. The volunteer group distributes 150 dinners twice a week at three different hospitals in the city.

Mar García, GPJ Mexico

Kusmawat Harijan cooks rice to prepare dinner in Kathmandu, Bagmati province, Nepal.

Sunita Neupane, GPJ Nepal

Mariana Mestre, center, and Gustavo Pellettieri, right, the photographer’s parents, have breakfast with Damián Díaz, the photographer's partner, and their dog Pinta, at an island in the Paraná Delta, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.

Lucila Pellettieri, GPJ Argentina