41.   City-dwellers flocked to the countryside for traditional outdoor meals of spit-roasted lamb.

42.   Families crowded national parks and feasted on the traditional meal of barbecued chicken, lamb and beef.

43.   In Greece, families gathered on sidewalks and in parks to eat the traditional Easter meal of roast lamb.

44.   In many Asian cultures, turtles are a traditional meal.

45.   In Psagot, which has come under some of the heaviest fire, Brigitte Shurba took a break from baking bread for the traditional pre-fast meal.

46.   In Tajikistan, particularly in rural areas, women make a traditional meal called sumalak, which is made of wheat sprouts.

47.   It is the traditional Turkish meal for a tired traveler.

48.   It may well be remembered as the year without the traditional chicken meals as authorities have not decided yet when to resume the import of chickens, he said.

49.   Like many Frenchmen, Michel Siffre rang in the new millennium with a traditional meal of foie gras, white wine and champagne.

50.   Lunch, he said, had been a traditional Bahamian meal of peas and grits with lamb chops.