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
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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
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2020 In The Kitchen: The Year We Spent Making, Baking, Frying And Trying
Fishermen sell freshly caught seafood at the Saturday Fishermen's Market in Santa Barbara, Calif. When the pandemic began, fishermen watched their markets dry up overnight. Now, as well as public markets like this, some are selling to food assistance programs. April Fulton for NPR hide caption
Mike Santoro, (left) and Todd Coleman prepare for a day of Pork 'N Pine deliveries in South Baltimore. Emily Sullivan/WYPR hide caption
In Baltimore, These Santa Clauses Bring Pork And Christmas Trees To Your Door
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In Baltimore, These Santa Clauses Bring Pork And Christmas Trees To Your Door
Linguine allo Scoglio and Chewy Hazelnut–Browned Butter Sugar Cookies from America's Test Kitchen. Carl Tremblay and Steve Klise hide caption
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Iranian American Chef Discusses Role Of Food In Yalda Day Celebrations
A pedestrian walks past a sign reading "Take Out And Delivery Only" on the door of a restaurant in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan on Thursday. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
With 100,000 Restaurants Already Closed, Owners Left Wondering If Help Is Coming
Cornwall's Tavern's owners Pam and John Beale are in survival mode. They're thinking a short-term pause in business, as COVID-19 infections surge, could allow them to reopen strong next year. Tovia Smith/NPR hide caption
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These sunflowers in San Diego National Wildlife Refuge are wild relatives of sunflowers that farmers around the world grow to produce oil. Lisa Cox/USFWS hide caption
Maldon salt flakes under a microscope. Food writer and recipe developer Nik Sharma is a molecular biologist by training, unlocking flavor with a scientific approach to cooking. Nik Sharma hide caption
Stacey Mei Yan Fong has been baking her way across the United States: Clockwise from upper left, a baked Alaska pie, Utah's funeral potato pie, Nevada's all you can eat buffet pie, South Carolina's peach pie, Ohio's buckeye pie, Iowa's s'mores pie, Missouri's frozen custard pie, and Minnesota's corn dog casserole pie. Stacey Mei Yan Fong hide caption
An Ode, À La Mode: 1 Baker Savors America, Creating 50 Pies For 50 States
Yuko Watanabe's biggest pivot was starting to sell plants at her Yuko Kitchen restaurants in Los Angeles. Yuko Watanabe hide caption