Agar plates with salmonella cultures ready for testing in the Medical Microbiology at the Houston Health and Human Services Department on June 18, 2015, in Houston. Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption
Different types of baklava are on display and being packaged at Gulluoglu, a shop in Gaziantep, Turkey. The city has many shops dedicated to the sweet pastry. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Cows are milked at the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University on Dec. 11, 2024, in Ithaca, N.Y., shortly after the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a federal order requiring testing of the nation's milk supply amid increasing concerns over avian flu. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
The FDA is warning people not to sell, serve or eat cucumbers grown by Bedner Growers and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales between April 29 and May 19. Richard Hamilton Smith/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
This rigatoni with mushroom Bolognese looks meaty but it's not. ATK hide caption
The winner of this year's World Food Prize, Mariangela Hungria, showed how microbes could bring a higher soybean yield — turning Brazil into a soybean superpower. Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
The New World screwworm is endemic in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean — and its northward spread into Mexico has alarmed U.S. officials. USDA hide caption
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Artist Ana Inciardi's vending machine prints feature food items and the tools that are associated with them. Ana Inciardi hide caption
"I get really emotional when I walk into these cafes and I see Yemen coffee becoming a thing," says coffee entrepreneur Mokhtar Alkhanshali. Port of Mokha hide caption
Shlissel challah is the name given to the special challah baked for the first shabbat after Passover Shprinzy Friedman/Shprinzy Friedman hide caption
Chicken is processed differently in the U.S. than the EU and U.K., causing Europeans to be skeptical of American "chlorinated chicken." Krug Studios/Corbis RF Stills/Getty Images hide caption
A spread of desserts found in the new cookbook, Malai Morgan Ione Yeager/Malai hide caption
Top row from left: pirão de galina from Brazil, North America, a berry soup from the Salish tribe in North America; an herbal soup popular in the Tamil community in Singapore. Bottown row: a Botswana soup is prepared with a leafy green called Morogo; a Nigerian waterleaf soup; and a soup from Madagascar made with Zebu organs. Clockwise from top left: Ana Caroline de Lima for NPR; Tailyr Irvine for NPR; Aina Zo Aberanto for NPR; Atang L.S Arnold for NPR; Sope Aldelaja for NPR; Amrita Chandradas for NPR hide caption
Cargill Kitchen Solutions is recalling several brands of liquid egg products that it says may have been distributed nationwide. USDA Food Safety Inspection Service hide caption
Indonesian fishermen unload their catch at the port in Jakarta on May 5, 2019. Goh Chai Hin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Hnoi Lathitham, 57, holds a bowl of Gang Liang in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, February 7, 2025. Hnoi, who has continuously adapted to a changing world, has been sharing the wonders of Thai food with people around the world in various professional capacities for over 30 years. Andre Malerba/for NPR hide caption
Tammy Fritsch, a dairy farmer from Freedom, Wisc., stands next to her cheese vat. She has been waiting on thousands of dollars in promised federal funds. On Friday, the USDA released those funds to farmers like Fritsch. Chuck Quirmbach/WUWM hide caption
Eggs for sale at 66 cents each from a supermarket in Monterey Park, Calif., on Feb. 10. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Defy expectations with this massive bowl of plain mashed potatoes to represent Wicked. Cris Cantón/Getty Images hide caption
A halibut dish that Chef Inunnguaq Hegelund has prepared in his home kitchen in Nuuk, Greenland on Feb. 20, 2025. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR hide caption