food and drink

Customers get out their smartphones and go silent as Shizuo Mori begins his pudding-fling serving technique that made him a viral sensation.
Food
This 80-year-old pudding maker in Tokyo goes viral for his flan-flinging flair
Bundz cheese from Poland.
Food
Polish cheesemakers bask in newfound fame
In a hot pan, the streaky bacon made by La Vie starts curling within minutes, bubbling and crisping…just like, well, bacon.
Food
A vegan bacon revolution takes hold in France
At the La Perseverancia market in Bogotá, Colombia customers have noticed that prices for many foods are increasing. With the war in Ukraine, inflation could get worse.
Food
For developing countries, the war in Ukraine means even higher food prices
Nancy Sharabarin hands money to a customer buying strawberries at the Saturday farmers market as business opens up with a successful vaccination campaign in Portland, Oregon, Saturday, June 5, 2021.
Food
There’s still time for canning, preserving and freezing excess fruits and veggies
An adult cicada rests after shedding its nymphal skin, on the bark of an an oak tree early Wednesday, May 5, 2021, on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland.
Food
17-year cicadas — noisy nuisance to some, delicacy to others
A plate of white fufu with another plate of food with red sauce
Food
A fufu TikTok trend introduces millions to a West African staple 
Leo Hornak's Christmas Pudding
Food
Recipe: Victorian Christmas pudding perfect for first-time cooks
A woman wearing a face mask sells roasted chestnuts as another woman wearing a blue apron minds the chestnuts.
Lifestyle & Belief
‘Castaloween’: A traditional Catalan chestnut holiday ‘coexists’ with Halloween
A worker dressed in white protective gear disinfects as a precaution against the coronavirus at a café in Goyang, South Korea, Aug. 25, 2020.  
To quell COVID-19 outbreak, South Korea bans seating at big cafés
A man poses behind taps at the bar
COVID-19
UK lockdown could see beer flowing down the drain
Microgreens are a simple way of incorporating fresh ingredients for cooking that you can grow in the comfort of your home. Some of the most popular microgreens include pea shoots, radish sprouts, sunflower shoots and wheatgrass.
Lifestyle
Gardening at home during COVID-19
Asitane
Food
Istanbul’s Asitane restaurant is a ‘gateway’ to the city’s culinary past
Cosmic Crisp apple tree
Food
The new Cosmic Crisp apple hits stores — after years of development
kugel
Food
How humble kugel becomes a ‘red-letter feast’ for Yom Kippur
doner kebabs for all
Food
The doner kebab, an unlikely symbol of European identity
whaling
Food
In Japan, few people eat whale meat anymore, but whaling remains popular
Women dressed in Thai traditional costumes hold durians at a department store in Bangkok
As the West jeers, durian mania rises in Asia
Nearly 20 percent of US food is imported. As imports of food has spiked, like lettuce from this farm in Guanajuato, Mexico, so have outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in the US.
Food inspections continue through shutdown but with some compromises
Campesinos working in Tlalquiltenango, Morelos, Mexico. 
Why food insecurity is a global farmworker issue
a closeup of farofa
Food
The Brazilian Christmas dinner is incomplete without this dish
A row of dairy cows
Food
While small dairy farms close, this mega-dairy is shipping milk to China
Close up of a grain.
Food
Maine is scaling up its local grain economy
Stacked jars of nutella
Food
Jar wars: The Italian plot to weaken Nutella
A woman wearing blue stands at her stall in the market
Food
Women are making Bolivia a destination for foodies
a bowl of Naengmyeon, cold noodles that originates from North Korea
Food
One winner from the Inter-Korean summits? Cold noodle soup.
a vendor at a poultry market in India
The myth of a vegetarian India
Leensa Ahmed, CEO of Green Garden Bakery
Food
Teen-run bakery brings healthy food and job training to Minneapolis
a collage of photos from Kashyap's dinner
Food
Cross-border meals connect people from countries in conflict
Glasses holding TX Whiskey (L) and TX Bourbon at the TX Tavern
Science
Texas researchers seek to redefine what it means to make whiskey in the US
a sardine fisherman captains his boat in Portugal
Economics
As sardine stocks dwindle, Portuguese fishermen’s futures in question
Two men brewing with bread
Environment
This British company is turning food waste into beer
"Little LA" in Mexico City
Culture
Visit a slice of Mexico City increasingly known as ‘Little LA’
Dishes of rice, stew and kimchi on a wooden table
Food
For these superfans, the Instant Pot is not just about easier cooking
Making habas con dulce
Food
The Good Friday dessert with roots in the Dominican Republic that I will not give up
Through water-conservation strategies, PepsiCo is now saving $1.5 million annually at its Gatorade processing facility in Tolleson, AZ, and using 24 percent less water in the water-scarce Southwest.
Business
As environmentalists warn about water scarcity, these two companies are saving water and money
Goats
Global Politics
Russians get their goats to circumvent European cheese blockade
Impossible Burger
Food
Is the public ready for Meat 2.0?
Dips and Small Bites from The Palestinian Table: (clockwise from left) Taboon Bread; Parsley or Cilantro (Coriander) Tahini Spread; Walnut and Garlic Labaneh; Deep-Fried Cheese and Za’atar Parcels; Garlic and Cucumber Labaneh; Avocado, Labaneh, and Preser
Food
‘The Palestinian Table’ is as much a memoir as a cookbook
An Italian grocer shows off his Parmesan cheese
Food
Animal rights group says two of Italy’s most famous cheeses are made with milk from abused cows
Steve Lorch has a 30-year plan to put upstate South Carolina on the map, known as a place for producing great tea.
Economics
Could Pickens, South Carolina, join China, India and Sri Lanka among the world’s great tea-growing regions?
An employee prepares organic unpasteurized butter
Business
A global croissant craze is part of the reason why butter is in short supply in France
A sampling of the wonderfully sweet butter tarts baked fresh daily at Leah's Bakery in Toronto.
Food
Is the butter tart the most Canadian of sweet treats? Not so fast
The "Octopus Church" is an octagonal church on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia. It's built over a ceremonial site for an octopus deity.
Environment
The octopus church of French Polynesia may have you rethink your next seafood dinner
Tacos al pastor from Carmela's Mexican Restaurant in Beaumont, Texas.
Food
Thank the Ottoman Empire for the taco al pastor
Customers don’t mind the long lines, according to writer and filmmaker Jason Motlagh. The line is part of the experience.
Business
For Cubans, this ice cream store is about much more than just the cold, creamy scoops
Mike Adams is the owner of Royalty Pecan Farm in Caldwell, Texas. Most of the nuts pictured here are being prepared for export to China.
Business
The Chinese went wild for American pecans — which may be bad news for wild pecan trees
Science
Even the FDA has no idea what’s in the food you eat. And here’s why
fortune
Food
Head to the US-Mexico border and find a Chinese food scene like none other
Fania Lewando, a restaurant owner in Poland before World War II, wrote a Yiddish cookbook that reveals a vibrant Jewish vegetarian tradition.
Food
Jewish vegetarians say you don’t have to make brisket for Passover — and they’ve got the recipes to prove it
Just in time for Passover, Ben and Jerry's is offering vanilla ice cream with a swirl of charoset straight from the seder table.
Food
Forget Cherry Garcia. How about Ben and Jerry’s Passover ice cream?
bandeja paisa
Culture
This delicious high-calorie Colombian dish should come with a warning label
Eggs
Health
At brunch next time, pass on the coffee cake and have an omelette
Tony Gemignani's Neapolitan margherita pizza.
Food
How Tony Gemignani shocked the pizza world
Cup of coffee
Health
Here’s good news for coffee drinkers. Have another cup — for your health
Corn smut
Science
Smitten with smut: US and Canadian farmers dread corn smut, but it’s a hit in Mexico
Lobster
Culture
At New Year’s tables across China, this year’s culinary bling: Maine lobster
Erik Bruner-Yang, chef and owner of Honeycomb Asian market in Washington, DC
Food
Honeycomb is making Asian food in Washington, DC a bit sweeter, and a lot more local
An archival photo of matzo-making at Streit's on the Lower East Side; things haven't changed all that much at the factory over the decades.
Food
A family that’s made matzo on the Lower East Side for nearly a century prepares to leave the neighborhood
Mike Caprio sampling a spicy chocolate cookie dubbed The Best Cookie in the World.
Food
How I fell in love with the world’s greatest cookie