Food
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Travel
No Thanks, Grandma, I’m Saving Room for Airplane Food
U.S. carriers are offering complimentary in-flight menus created by celebrated chefs, wine pairings selected by master sommeliers and specialty dishes available for preorder. To some of us, that is.
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Arts
Sizzling Dishes and Stressful Meals Give Video Games Warmth
By asking players to cook and eat virtual food, game designers are finding resonant ways to tell personal stories.
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Food
On the Luby’s Cafeteria Line, Every Day Is Thanksgiving
In a spacious Houston cafeteria awash in primary colors, diners crowded around big tables and dug into mashed potatoes splashed with a slick gravy, glossy green beans and sticky slabs of pecan pie. The calendar said Oct. 12. But this was Luby’s ...
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Food
Claire Saffitz’s Thanksgiving Is Not That Complicated
After roughly a decade of cooking Thanksgiving for my family, I’ve arrived at one simple truth: The more effort I put forward, the less I enjoy the meal. As a professional cook, I’ve planned elaborate menus, deboning a whole turkey and stuffing it ...
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Arts
A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.
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Business
Those Doritos Too Expensive? More Stores Offer Their Own Alternatives.
Retailers are expanding their own private-label food and beverage offerings, attracting customers looking for less expensive options.
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Business
How a Fertilizer Shortage Is Spreading Desperate Hunger
Suleiman Chubado is not entirely clear what caused the price of fertilizer to more than double over the past year, but he is bitterly aware of the consequences. At his farm in northeastern Nigeria, he can no longer afford enough fertilizer, so his ...
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Health
California’s Ban on Red Food Dye Puts F.D.A.’s Food Policies on the Spot
The dye was banned in cosmetics after a study suggested it might be a carcinogen. Yet federal regulations still permit its use in foods, stoking concerns that helped build support for the new state law.
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World
New York Has Issued 14 New Food Cart Permits. 10,000 Vendors Want Them.
More than a year after the city implemented reforms to the food vendor licensing process, few have received permits, even as enforcement picks up.
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Magazine
A Soup for When You Just Want to Be Alone
This herby sweet-potato soup may be a bit modest, but it’s also the best company if you need to recharge.