Food Month: food culture from around the world

To celebrate Irish Times Food Month, here are a selection of the best food pictures from around the world

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A worker walks in a special room where Parma ham are hung to dry in Langhirano, near Parma. The home of Parma ham, trumpeting the benefits of a traditional Mediterranean diet, is urging consumers not to get into a prosciutto panic after a warning that processed meat can cause cancer. Italian food and farming groups responded indignantly to the World Health Organization (WHO) report that put cured meats, such as ham, sausage and salami, together with asbestos and tobacco on a list of carcinogens. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Iranians make traditional food for people in need during a mourning ceremonies, one day a head of Ashura day in the city of Khorramabad, southern Iran. The Ashura day commemorates the death anniversary of the third Shiite Imam Hussein, who was grandson of Muslim Prophet Muhammed. Ashura is the peak of ten days of mourning when Shiite Muslims mourn the killing of Imam Hussein whose shrine is in Karbala in southern Iraq. Photograph: Abdein Taherkenareh/EPA

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