Village life, near Deogarh, Rajasthan, India

A local boy grinds millet by hand using a huge mortar and pestle, Tsaranoro Velley, Andringitra National Park, near the provincial city of Fianarantsoa, southern Madagsacar, Africa

Genoese pesto sauce, garlic, basil, olive oil, cheese, salt, pestle and mortar, Genoa, Italy, Europe

A woman uses a traditional wooden pestle and mortar to grind freshly roasted coffee beans, Ethiopia, Africa

African village children, Tetiane Bade, Senegal, West Africa, Africa

A woman pounding millet using a traditional wooden pestle and mortar at her home compound, Uganda, Africa

Men pounding cassava in a wooden pot with a stick to make flour, Datcha, Togo, West Africa, Africa

Pepper

Girls using a pestle, Tetiane Bade, Senegal, West Africa, Africa

Zambia kaunga mashi village, shangombo district (near the angolan border). Pounding grain

Tanzanian women pounding cassava and dried banana in a wooden mortar and pestle in the traditional way. Kighare, same, in the north-east near kilimanjaro

Lavender.

Bartender mixing a Mojito cocktail with rum, mint and lime, La Bodeguita del Medio, Empedrado 207, old town, Havana, Cuba, Caribbean, Central America

Mortar and pestle with crushed cacao