Ode to Tortillas
A poem for Sunday
Food
When Did Following Recipes Become a Personal Failure?
Sam Sifton’s exciting, but daunting, invitation to improvise
There’s No Real Reason to Eat 3 Meals a Day
Your weird pandemic eating habits are probably fine.
The Total Absurdity of Outdoor Dining Structures
Are you even still “outside” if you’re in a completely enclosed space?
How Our Relationships Affect What We Eat
When couples, families, and friends compromise on their diets, it can lead to devastating fights or creative new food cultures.
What Bread Tasted Like 4,000 Years Ago
How an archaeologist and the creator of the Xbox brought an ancient Egyptian sourdough starter back to life
Padma Lakshmi’s New Food Show Is a Trojan Horse
Taste the Nation is breezy in tone, but it exposes the betrayals at the heart of “American” cuisine.
The Pandemic Shows Us the Genius of Supermarkets
A short history of the stores that—even now—keep us supplied with an abundance of choices
The Table Stays White
A national discussion has erupted, again, over racism in food media. But that discussion is one part of the problem.
The Dumbing Down of the American Restaurant
Tom Colicchio, the celebrity chef, thinks 50 percent of restaurants may not survive the pandemic, and that they’re going to have to change.