Food

Indian food delivery apps race to deliver meals in 10 minutes. Zomato, Swiggy, Zepto and others battle for impatient consumers. Some companies use in-house kitchens, others partner with restaurants. This rapid delivery raises concerns about food quality and health. The market is expected to grow significantly. Companies assure quality is maintained despite the speed.

What does “healthy” mean? New guidelines for food labels focus on what we should eat, instead of what we shouldn’t.

Blanching vegetables is an easy and quick way to cook the exterior without sacrificing the interior crunch. Here’s how to do it in a few simple steps.

That would be Marcella Hazan, who demystified one of the world’s major cuisines for Americans trapped in a Wonder Bread world.

An advisory committee to the USDA suggests tweaking the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans — set to be published in late 2025 — to recommend at least 2.5 cups of beans, peas, and lentils a week, in lieu of meat as a protein source. Here’s what to know.

This is the final essay in What to Eat on a Burning Planet, a series exploring bold ideas to secure our food supply. Read more about this project in a note from Eliza Barclay, Opinion’s climate editor.

Every couple of years I return to my favorite video on YouTube: a seven-minute clip of the rapper then known as Mos Def holding court in a studio, eliciting gasps and laughter from an unseen audience by reciting MF DOOM lyrics.

America’s hottest new drink is unpasteurized. Days before Thanksgiving, Mark McAfee was fielding calls about the voluntary recall of his farm’s raw milk after a batch distributed to stores in California tested positive for genetic material that contains the bird-flu virus.

In our house, the weekly meal plans have to check several boxes.

The way we eat desperately needs to change. Experts estimate diet is a bigger contributor globally to early death than smoking. In America, nearly half the adult population has Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes.