Sunday, December 25, 2016

Christmas Food and Food Production Images for 2016

This roundup of global food, farming, and agricultural photos appears every Sunday on Big Picture Agriculture.


A Palestinian Girl wearing a Santa Claus outfit collect strawberries in a field in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on December 24, 2016. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

As part of the #Love48 campaign, Shaq Barrett shared his love this season by giving 48 families in need a holiday meal and gifts on December 20, 2016 at Safeway. Families being served by the Comitis Crisis Center have been invited to take part in the the giveaway. Each family was given a cooler filled with perishable items for a meal and a bag of toiletries. Photo credit: Denver Post / John Leyba / Getty Images.

A man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit decorates Christmas cakes with chocolate-coated cicadas and worms for a Christmas event in Tokyo on December 24, 2016. About 35 people took part in the Christmas event, which was organised by a group which enjoys cooking insects and worms. Photo credit: AFP / Toru YAMANAKA / Getty Images.

Tourists wearing Santa hats enjoy dinner in the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 23, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / NICHOLAS Kamm / Getty Images.

Auction assistants display birds before the York Auction Centre's Christmas Poultry Auction of dressed poultry at the York Auction Centre's Christmas Poultry Auction of dressed poultry in York, northern England, on December 22, 2016. The annual sale of dressed poultry featured over 800 birds, including: turkeys, geese, pheasants, partridge, ducks and chickens. Photo credit: AFP / OLI Scarff / Getty Images.

Visitors look at gingerbread hanging at a food stand that reopened moments before at the Breitscheidplatz Christmas market only a short distance from where three days ago a truck plowed into the market, killed 12 people and injured dozens in a terrorist attack on December 22, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The Breidscheidplatz Christmas market is reopening today, though its small amusement rides and bright lights displays will remain shut off in a sign of continuing mourning for the attack victims. Photo credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images.

An indian worker places cakes in a rack , in a baking factory, ahead of Christmas festival, in Allahabad on December 21,2016. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Rupert Gleadow, Executive Development Chef at Gate Gourmet for Virgin Atlantic, puts the finishing touches to some of the 27,000 Christmas meals Virgin Atlantic will serve to their customers between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. In total the airline will serve up around 2,000 kilos of turkey, 100,000 sprouts, and 81,000 roast potatoes on board flights to the USA, Caribbean, Africa, UAE and China. Photo credit: PA Images / Gareth Fuller / Getty Images.

A man choses a fir tree at a vendor market in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec 19, 2016. Street Christmas trees markets were opened in Kyiv, Ukraine as country meets so called Christmas Holidays. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Bars of Cailler branded 'branche' chocolate sit on the production line at the Nestle SA production facility in Broc, Switzerland, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Nestle says it found a way to reduce the amount of sugar in chocolate by as much as 40 percent, a discovery that may give the KitKat maker an edge as food producers face increasing pressure from governments, health advocates and shoppers to make products healthier. Photo credit: Michele Limina / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

Home-made cookies are seen with icing. In Poland, where over 90 per cent of the population is Catholic, Christmas is the biggest festive season of the year. Families come together and often have solely home-made dishes and sweets. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.