Grandmas and Their Grub - NYTimes.com The Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti's portfolio "Delicatessen With Love" depicts grandmothers all over the world - in 58 countries, from Malawi to Malaysia, from Sweden to Brazil - at home, beside their best dish. For Galimberti, this project was a way of deriving comfort from a demanding sojourn across five continents (on the trip, he also documented his couch surfing and created his best-known work, "Toy Stories," which portrays children around the world with their favorite things.) More important, it served as a method, as captured in a passage on his Web site, of reassuring his own grandmother that he wouldn't go hungry even if she wasn't there to cook for him along the way: She was not so concerned about the possible risks or mishaps her grandson might face in his adventurous traveling worldwide, but her major worry was "What will he eat?" That is because only at home you can eat well and healthfully. And above all, only your grandma (and sometimes mum) knows what is best for you. Beyond their aesthetics (Galimberti spent hours styling each of the shots, getting to know his subjects in the process), the commonality of these photos is what makes them so winning. Though they're often in wildly disparate locales with wild dishes (I mean, caterpillars!), it's easy to look at these photos and feel a connection with these women. In fact, it's hard not to see your own grandmother among them, beaming in her kitchen next to something she just whipped up. The photos from "Delicatessen With Love" will be published in book form by Clarkson Potter in September 2014.