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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Traditional Mud Oven Makers -Iraq

Abdullah, a traditional oven maker, works with his family in Kirkuk, Iraq, on July 6, 2025. His family has been crafting mud ovens for nearly a century, passing the skill down through generations. Despite the hard labor and seasonal challenges—particularly drying the mud in extreme weather—the family remains committed to preserving this heritage. Preferred by many restaurants and households over metal ovens, these clay ovens are believed to give bread a superior taste, on July 6, 2025 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Omar Karim/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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All bakeries forced to close by Israeli army in Gaza

Men stand beside ovens inside an empty bakery in northern Gaza on April 1, 2025. Bakeries across Gaza have been forced to close due to a critical shortage of flour and the continued closure of border crossings. Photo by Hamed Sbeata/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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All bakeries forced to close by Israeli army in Gaza

Men stand beside ovens inside an empty bakery in northern Gaza on April 1, 2025. Bakeries across Gaza have been forced to close due to a critical shortage of flour and the continued closure of border crossings. Photo by Hamed Sbeata/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Brand Booth at 2025AWE in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - MARCH 20, 2025 - Visitors visit the SIEMENS Smart Kitchen (smart appliances such as dishwashers, microwave ovens, built-in refrigerators) displayed in the exhibition area at 2025AWE in Shanghai, China on March 20, 2025.

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Brand Booth at 2025AWE in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - MARCH 20, 2025 - Visitors visit the Panasonic Smart Kitchen (smart appliances such as dishwashers, microwave ovens, built-in refrigerators) displayed in the exhibition area at 2025AWE in Shanghai, China on March 20, 2025.

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

View of baking flat bread in tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey, on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman makes flat bread in Hatay, Turkey, on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman fires up a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey, on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman makes flat bread in tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey, on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman picks wood to fire up a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman makes flat bread in tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey, on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman cleans charred tomato and pepers cooked in a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman picks green beans from her garden in Hatay, Turkey, on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A view of charred tomato and pepers cooked in a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman charrs tomato and pepers in a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman prepares dough to make flat bread in a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A man carries a tray of flat bread cooked in a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A woman prepares dough to make flat bread in a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baking Tradition - Turkey

A man carries a tray of flat bread cooked in a tandoor, a clay oven in Hatay, Turkey on July 17, 2024. With a 5,000-year history dating back to the Seljuks, the tandoor remains a vital tradition in Central Asia, Anatolia, and beyond. In Hatay, tandoors are placed above ground, unlike the underground ones in Eastern Anatolia, and are widely used alongside stone ovens to bake the traditional 'Tandır Bread'. Photo by Murat Kocabas/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Zaporizhzhia Coke Plant

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - APRIL 11, 2024 - Coke ovens are pictured on the premises of PJSC Zaporizhcoke, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine.

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Turks' "dessert after Iftar" tradition prevails despite rising prices

STORY: Turks' "dessert after Iftar" tradition prevails despite rising prices SHOOTING TIME: March 8, 2024 DATELINE: March 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Istanbul 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): NADIR GULLU, Owner of Karakoy Gulluoglu 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Turkish): NADIR GULLU, Owner of Karakoy Gulluoglu 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Turkish): NADIR GULLU, Owner of Karakoy Gulluoglu 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Turkish): GOKHAN GUNDOGDU, Store manager 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (Turkish): ZAFER YILMAZ, Local resident STORYLINE: In the production center of a dessert maker in Istanbul's Karakoy neighborhood, there was an extraordinary flurry of activity. Baklava trays were being loaded into the ovens one after the other while apprentices diligently poured syrup over the freshly baked delicacies. The impetus behind this sweet rush was to meet the surging demand from Turks, known for their sweet tooth since Ottoman times, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Established in 1843, Karakoy Gu

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Sanyo offers to repair 880,000 microwave/electric ovens

OSAKA, Japan - Nobuaki Matsuoka (L), president of Sanyo Consumer Electronics Co., a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 20 about the company's plan to repair some 880,000 microwave/electric ovens free of charge after three ovens caught on fire.

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Afghan authorities reactivate silo in northern Mazar-I-Sharif city

STORY: Afghan authorities reactivate silo in northern Mazar-I-Sharif city DATELINE: Nov. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of bread baking at the reactivated silo in Mazar-i-Sharif city 2. SOUNDBITE (Dari): MOHAMMAD JAWED SEDIDI, Director of the silo 3. various of people at the reactivated silo in Mazar-i-Sharif city STORYLINE: Afghan authorities reactivated the only silo three decades after it was rendered idle in Mazar-i-Sharif city, capital of northern Balkh province, on Monday. SOUNDBITE (Dari): MOHAMMAD JAWED SEDIDI, Director of the silo "At the moment one oven of the silo has begun operation to bake bread and efforts are underway to activate 18 other ovens to increase our products." Like other infrastructures, the erstwhile Soviet Union-made silo in Mazar-i-Sharif has been damaged due to decades of war in the country. This is the second silo that has been reactivated by the authorities in Afghanistan over several months. Earlier,

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BANGLADESH-BOGURA-DAIRY PRODUCTS

(220420) -- BOGURA, April 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Workers place yogurt in clay pots around ovens at a factory in Bogura, Bangladesh on April 17, 2022. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-BOGURA-DAIRY PRODUCTS

(220420) -- BOGURA, April 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Workers place yogurt in clay pots around ovens at a factory in Bogura, Bangladesh on April 17, 2022. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-BOGURA-DAIRY PRODUCTS

(220420) -- BOGURA, April 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker places yogurt in clay pots around ovens at a factory in Bogura, Bangladesh on April 17, 2022. (Xinhua)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-SALTWORKS-TANG DYNASTY(CN)

(211230) -- TIANJIN, Dec. 30, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Combined photo shows ancient pits and ovens for salt making and tracks of wheels found at the ruins of a salt-making workshop dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) at Junliangcheng site in north China's Tianjin Municipality. TO GO WITH "Tang Dynasty saltworks discovered in north China's Tianjin" (Xinhua)

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Sanyo offers to repair 880,000 microwave/electric ovens

OSAKA, Japan - Nobuaki Matsuoka (L), president of Sanyo Consumer Electronics Co., a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 20 about the company's plan to repair some 880,000 microwave/electric ovens free of charge after three ovens caught on fire. (Kyodo)

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The Chronicle (2001)

Reno Wilson, Chad Willett, Rena Sofer & Jon Polito Characters: Wes Freewald (22 episodes, 2001-2002),Tucker Burns,Grace Hall & Donald Stern Television: The Chronicle (2001) 14 July 2001 Quality: 2nd Generation. Programme Name: The Chronicle. Caption: Tacky tabloid claims are revealed as truth in THE CHRONICLE, a brand new 22-episode, science-fiction series, where Elvis lives, demons dwell in toilets and haunted ovens cook up acts of unspeakable evil... An original production from the US Sci-Fi Channel this light-hearted SF series was created by horror writer Silvio Horta of URBAN LEGEND fame and stars Chad Willett as journalism graduate Tucker Burns. Starring: Chad Willett, Rena Sofer, Jon Polito, Reno Wilson, Curtis Armstrong For further information: please contact Rebecca Edwards at Sci.Fi on 020 7535 3572 or Helen Buckley at Sci.Fi on 020 7535 3573. Date: 14 July 2001

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The Chronicle (2001)

Reno Wilson, Chad Willett, Rena Sofer & Curtis Armstrong Characters: Wes Freewald (22 episodes, 2001-2002),Tucker Burns,Grace Hall & 'Pig Boy' Television: The Chronicle (2001) 14 July 2001 Quality: 2nd Generation. Programme Name: The Chronicle. Caption: Tacky tabloid claims are revealed as truth in THE CHRONICLE, a brand new 22-episode, science-fiction series, where Elvis lives, demons dwell in toilets and haunted ovens cook up acts of unspeakable evil... An original production from the US Sci-Fi Channel this light-hearted SF series was created by horror writer Silvio Horta of URBAN LEGEND fame and stars Chad Willett as journalism graduate Tucker Burns. Starring: Chad Willett, Rena Sofer, Jon Polito, Reno Wilson, Curtis Armstrong For further information: please contact Rebecca Edwards at Sci.Fi on 020 7535 3572 or Helen Buckley at Sci.Fi on 020 7535 3573. Date: 14 July 2001

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IT HAPPENED TO JANE

IT HAPPENED TO JANE JACK LEMMON, DORIS DAY Date: 1959

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THE LADY TAKES A FLYER

THE LADY TAKES A FLYER LANA TURNER, JEFF CHANDLER Date: 1958