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Meet cascatelli, a pasta shape created by Dan Pashman, host of the food podcast The Sporkful. Scott Gordon Bleicher/Dan Pashman hide caption
For Pasta Lovers Bored By Spaghetti, There's A New Short, Wavy, Sauce-Holding Shape
Not My Job: We Quiz NYT Cooking Expert Sam Sifton On Vending Machines
Chef Yia Vang's restaurant in Minneapolis is getting ready to open amid a fierce debate within the restaurant industry about the minimum wage. The restaurant will not have tipping. Lauren Cutshall hide caption
So How Should Your Favorite Restaurant Pay Its Servers? Well, It's Complicated
Dan Pashman's cascatelli pasta Scott Gordon Bleicher/Sporkful hide caption
The tipped minimum wage hasn't changed for 30 years. SDI Productions/Getty Images hide caption
Rod Bradshaw, pictured in January 2021, says he's the last Black farmer in Hodgeman County, Kan. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talked with NPR about debt relief coming for Black farmers. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
Black Farmers Have Long Faced Discrimination. New Aid Aims To Right Past Wrongs
Keitra Bates stands outside of the original location of Marddy's in Atlanta. It's a shared kitchen where home cooks can prepare their goods, and collectively market them. Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR hide caption
'We Don't Have The Luxury To Fall Apart': Black Businesses Get Creative To Survive
Chef Sohla El-Waylly. Jingyu Lin/Narrative PR hide caption
From a sampling of Girl Scout Cookies, Los Angeles Times food columnist Lucas Kwan Peterson says that Samoas (also known as Caramel deLites) are the superior cookie. Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Scotch whisky producers are welcoming news of a breakthrough on tariffs, which came as the industry adjusted to both Brexit and then the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, an employee rolls a whisky barrel at the Glenturret Distillery in Crieff, central Scotland, last week. Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions, by Michael Moss Random House hide caption
Good butter should spread easily at room temperature, right? Well, Canadians have been complaining about strangely "hard" butter for weeks. Matthew Mead/AP hide caption
Rob Martin, who has been fishing off his boat for the last 29 years, and his partner haul up a 150-pound end trap while ropeless lobster fishing in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts. Eve Zuckoff/WCAI hide caption
'Ropeless' Lobster Fishing Could Save The Whales. Could It Kill The Industry?
People wait in long lines at an H-E-B grocery store in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. The large supermarket chain said the "unprecedented weather event in Texas has caused a severe disruption in the food supply chain." Montinique Monroe/Getty Images hide caption
Owner Donald Minerva outside Scottadito Osteria Toscana restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y., which has been closed for indoor dining for two months. The restaurant is reopening at reduced capacity on Valentine's weekend. Sally Herships/NPR hide caption
New York Restaurants Hope To Avoid Heartbreak On Valentine's Weekend
A health officer in a protective suit collects a sample from a package of imported frozen food for a coronavirus rapid test at a wholesale market in China. Wu Zheng/VCG via Getty Images hide caption
A Valentine's Day meal for two from America's Test Kitchen: coffee mug molten chocolate cake and Thai chicken with basil. America's Test Kitchen hide caption
Happy Valentine's day from the scorpions at NPR Short Wave! Richard Newstead/Getty Images hide caption
Pearl Milling Company maintains the iconic red and yellow colors of the Aunt Jemima brand. The new brand will hit store shelves in June. PepsiCo, Inc. hide caption
Adán Medrano, chef and food writer, savors a beef cheek taco at Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. John Burnett/NPR hide caption
