Why I Love Sheet Pans

Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. This week, we are celebrating the sheet pan, the unsexiest piece of kitchen equipment ever to hit home-cooking culture. Our team put together this smashing collection of 20 sheet-pan recipes, and a special section in this Sunday’s print edition of The Times. Perhaps you’re rolling your eyes? Isn’t…

The Season of the Snitch

Judge Judy and Executioner People have always reveled in exposing the hypocritical acts of politicians, but over the last year the cooped-up masses began regarding one another with the same wariness. As the spring lockdowns were put into effect, people began sharing social media posts as evidence of their peers not distancing, or to identify…

‘Like a Warm Hug From an Angel’

surfacing For a handful of cultures across the globe, the Arab world among them, these distinct blankets deliver not only an impossibly warm, soft hug but a great sense of belonging. By Maya Salam Photographs by Farah Al Qasimi For The New York Times Subhi Taha wanted to give a special thanks last week to…