Front Burner: Recipes From Black America

Advertisement Front Burner The ‘Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook,’ from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, has old favorites and modern fare. Image CreditCreditSonny Figueroa/The New York Times Sept. 10, 2018 The spacious, informal Sweet Home Café at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., offers…

Front Burner: The Future Is Soft Serve

Advertisement Front Burner At Bar Moxy in Midtown Manhattan, a vending machine serves ice cream. Image A vending machine offers soft-serve ice cream to visitors at the Moxy Hotel in Midtown.CreditCreditCaitlin Ochs for The New York Times Sept. 10, 2018 For a sweet pick-me-up almost any time, there’s soft-serve on demand at Bar Moxy in…

What to Cook This Week

Good morning. I wrote a column about Chinese food for The New York Times Magazine this week, and accompanied it with a recipe for velvet fish with mushrooms (above) that I think you ought to make just as soon as you can. It’s delicious and addictive and offers the benefit of rewarding repeat preparation with…

Front Burner: A Bite in a Fashionable Box

Advertisement Front Burner This lunch box from Jean-Georges Vongerichten, available at the Mark Hotel, holds a sandwich, grapes and sparkling water. Image A fashionable lunch for Fashion Week.CreditCreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times Sept. 8, 2018 A cunning reusable lunch box from Jean-Georges Vongerichten may be as chic as the latest Vuitton for Fashion…

Why Aren’t We Eating More Insects?

From a scientific standpoint, our rejection of bugs as food is illogical. Insects share many characteristics with crustaceans, which are coveted and esteemed; both are members of the phylum Arthropoda. David Foster Wallace, in his 2004 essay “Consider the Lobster,” noted that “lobsters are basically giant sea-insects,” with a footnote citing Maine slang for lobsters:…