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First LookRestaurant workers find niche dishing up food from homeAcross the United States, the legality of selling home-cooked foods varies. But amid restaurant closures, chefs have pivoted to cooking and serving meals from their own kitchens, sparking new discussions among lawmakers and regulators.
Should school lunches be free for all? A pandemic experiment.In the pandemic, U.S. public schools are offering free lunches for all students, despite family income. The experiment offers clues about what works.
Neighbors feeding neighbors: Community fridges strengthen tiesAlong with providing free food for neighbors in need, community fridges bring people together and may help stabilize communities.
The ExplainerWho is hungry in America? The pandemic has changed the answer.By one estimate, food insecurity among Americans doubled during the coronavirus pandemic. The challenge has prompted a push for new solutions.- CommentaryRediscovering Indigenous foods – and a way of life
Difference MakerFor this Brazilian chef, stopping world hunger starts in local kitchensDavid Hertz looked at food insecurity and saw local culinary training, among other things, as a way out.
How women are helping communities defeat food insecurityHow can women, facing food insecurity amid a pandemic, make their families more resilient? A small El Salvador cooperative helps answer the question.
First LookMore consumers say there's nothing fishy about lab-grown seafoodLab-grown seafood in Hong Kong is the latest in “clean meat,” a process that aims to produce animal protein that doesn’t deplete the environment. “If I wasn’t told it was cultivated fish, I would think it was gourmet-quality fish made into a burger,” said one tester.
Difference MakerIn a Brooklyn kitchen, a Statue of Liberty spirit offers a fresh startTraining for newcomers to the United States focuses on 10 weeks of culinary and job skills in the Brooklyn, N.Y., cafe of nonprofit Emma’s Torch.
Mini pumpkin pies can help Thanksgiving 2020 feel rightHow to make the most of a more modest Thanksgiving: from a scaled-down, main-dish centerpiece, to a lasting pen-and-paper approach for giving thanks.
Crisp air and apples: Pandemic-weary folks flock to pick-your-own farmsFarmers are used to being resilient. Now they’re applying pandemic precautions and supplying nature to people looking for a taste of normalcy.
Heat lamps and hot cider. Can restaurants survive a pandemic winter?Alfresco dining has provided critical relief to the restaurant industry, which has been hit especially hard by COVID-19. But can it survive winter?
No flour? No problem. How to bake with workarounds.Here’s what you can do when the urge to bake hits, but you can’t find flour and yeast on the shelves.
Eating in: How to transform pantry staples into comfort foodCooking during coronavirus quarantine: How to turn those pantry staples into comfort food.
Help in the kitchen or watch football? A Thanksgiving guest’s dilemma.The great American holiday can be fraught with turf battles and gender stereotyping. Our writer has an idea about how to run interference.
Short food videos serve as amuse-bouches for online viewersYouTube and Instagram videos are drawing millions of viewers online to watch recipes being made in five minutes or less – often without big name celebrity chefs. It's a shift that one print publisher is paying close attention to as a gateway for new audiences.
First Look'Plant-based' replaces 'v-words' to appeal to carnivoresAs companies try to get Americans to eat fewer animal products, “plant-based” is replacing “vegan” and “vegetarian” because of the unappetizing and polarizing associations the v-words might have.
First LookLittle, free pantries feed the food-insecure in Wyoming communityTiny food pantries, operating similarly to little free libraries for book sharing, are up and running in a community in Wyoming. The effort aims to help struggling families in emergency situations and increase the visibility of food insecurity.
First LookMobile food banks roll through rural US transforming food desertsTraveling to distant grocery stores and paying for groceries can be extremely difficult for the disabled, aging, and poor living in isolated areas. Mobile pantries play an essential role in combatting food insecurity in rural counties – providing both food and hope.
First LookHow food deliveries could change lunchtime at schoolAcross the country, more food catering programs are making it easier for students to enjoy healthy lunches at school and easing the stress of packing lunches on parents by providing alternatives to what is offered at the cafeteria.
