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Michael Loccisano / Getty The Dumbing Down of the American Restaurant
Tom Colicchio, the celebrity chef, thinks 50 percent of restaurants may not survive the pandemic, and that they’re going to have to change.
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Paul Hennessy / NurPhoto via Getty Food Banks Can’t Go On Like This
Demand is spiking. And meeting it is costlier than ever. Without more changes to federal and state food assistance, the status quo is unsustainable.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Foodie Culture as We Know It Is Over
A wave of culinary experts is responding to the pandemic with an accessible and empathetic approach to home cooking—and audiences can’t get enough.
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Heritage / Bettmann / George Marks / AFP … In 1950, Americans Had Aspic. Now We Have Dalgona Coffee.
Unlike food innovations from crises past, coronavirus-inspired recipes are more about stress relief than survival.
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Quentin Bacon / The Atlantic Ina Garten’s Quarantine Playbook
In an inordinately stressful moment, the Barefoot Contessa’s Instagram page has become one of the most soothing and wholesome places on the internet.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / … ‘The Fact That I Can’t Fix Things Now Is Breaking My Heart’
In the restaurant industry, how to get cash to out-of-work servers—and food to gig workers suddenly without income—is the question on everyone’s mind.
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Naomi Elliott The Best Kind of Food to Cook During a Pandemic
I chose risotto, but any recipe that requires your full, constant attention is a good distraction from anxiety.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Do People Crave Foods Their Moms Ate During Pregnancy?
The diets of expectant mothers—from the mundane to the unusual—can become imbued with deep symbolic meaning for their children.
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Gerald Herbert / AP The History Behind One of America’s Most Beloved Desserts
The origins of the praline candy can be traced back to enslaved black women in Louisiana.
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Naomi Elliott The 5 Best Cookbooks of 2019
Food guides you’ll want to read and, more importantly, cook from
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Culinary Legacy of Leah Chase
The late chef and owner of Dooky Chase’s restaurant in New Orleans changed the landscape of African American cuisine.
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Courtesy of Tina Whatcott Echeverria What Keeps Hollywood’s Oldest Restaurant Running
One hundred years after it first opened, the Musso & Frank Grill is mixing the old and the new with verve.
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Wallace Kirkland / The LIFE Picture Collection / … Uncovering the Roots of Caribbean Cooking
A lush book of recipes pays homage to the inventive culinary contributions of enslaved African women.
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Adam Lau / AP The Timeless Bliss of Eating Hometown Food
For many holiday travelers, a trip back to where they grew up is a chance to revisit the local haunts they spend the rest of the year craving.
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Andy Reynolds / Getty The High-Stakes World of Christmas Tamales
“Tamales are different not just from country to country, but also from region to region and even from abuela to abuela.”
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The 7 Best Cookbooks of 2018
Pan-seared steak with za’atar chimichurri, curried lamb ribs, and a host of other inventive dishes from this year’s top food bibles
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New York Public Library The Strange Pathos of the Turkey in Madame Bovary
For one writer, Gustave Flaubert’s tragic masterpiece has an offbeat and deeply poignant connection to Thanksgiving.
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Heather Sten Samin Nosrat Wants Everybody to Cook
The Bay Area chef believes that great food can be both beautiful and accessible. Her new Netflix series, based on her celebrated cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, might just help her deliver that message.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Why Chef José Andrés Set Up a Kitchen in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
The chef’s massive effort to cook food for the island’s residents and relief workers was driven by an urgent sense of empathy.
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Eric Wolfinger Writing an Iranian Cookbook in an Age of Anxiety
As my family and my adopted country endured dramatic change, I learned to find solace in the kinds of written recipes I was taught to reject growing up.
