Creating the Super Avocado

In the early 1990s, a young Australian chef named Bill Granger had a bright idea: Why not spread avocado on toast? Nearly three decades after that successful experiment, the long and sometimes bizarre history of the avocado has reached a new and potentially controversial turning point — albeit without the Instagram potential of avocado toast.…

The Pantry Pasta You Need

[Sign up here to receive the Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter in your inbox every Friday.] Here are five dishes for the week: ImageCreditRyan Liebe for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. 1. Linguine With Clam Sauce My only goal here is to make sure you know how good pasta with clam sauce is…

Now Rising to the Top of the Beer World: Foam

There’s nothing fast about the Slow Pour Pils from Bierstadt Lagerhaus. The Denver brewery spends 30 hours brewing the straw-colored pilsner, ferments it for weeks and, finally, makes its taproom customers wait at least five minutes for a taste. Bartenders pour the pilsner straight into the glass to create foam, then let it subside. They…

How to Develop an Appetite for Insects

Repeat after me: entomophagy. It’s derived from Greek and Latin: “entomon,” meaning “insect,” and “phagus,” as in “feeding on.” Some think it’s the future of food. In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released a report declaring the need to swap traditional protein sources for insects to support a sustainable future.…