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Street vendors in red aprons and hats serve skewered traditional foods to a crowd of customers at a busy night market in Wuhan, China, with Chinese signs overhead.

Plate of Jamaican-style jerk chicken served with rice and beans, fried plantains, and sauteed vegetables.

A bronze bust of an Indigenous American figure sits in a kitchen, overlaid with sacks of rice marked with a green check and milk with sugar cubes crossed out.

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Indian cuisine nouvelle cuisine Italian cuisine French cuisine soul food fish and chips Chinese cuisine harissa shepherd’s pie grande cuisine bento Feast of the Seven Fishes luau ploughman’s lunch

Chocolate bar broken into pieces. (sweets; dessert; cocoa; candy bar; sugary)

Food Around the World

Grains and spices in bags, India. (Indian, vendor, market, food)

Ultimate Foodie Quiz

gyoza, dumpling

World Dumplings

Ceviche. Peruvian ceviche (sebiche). Raw seafood dish with lime, cilantro, peppers, plantains. Cuisine, food

A World of Food Quiz

Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).

What’s on the Menu? Vocabulary Quiz

Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). 10 feet. Fishes, ichthyology, fish plates, marine biology, horse mackerel, red tuna, giant fish, oceanic tuna.

What’s on the Menu?