As Food Deliveries Boom, So Do Ghost Kitchens
Several new companies and models have emerged to help restaurants by making food off-site, and even delivering it.
By Florence Fabricant
The State Fair Is Canceled. Deep-Fried Oreos Are Not.
Food vendors and their devoted fans are going to great lengths, from drive-throughs to phone apps, to keep the corn dogs and chickens-on-a-stick flowing.
Volunteers from the industry group Oregon Dairy Women with the mobile version of the Red Barn ice cream stand they usually run at the Oregon State Fair. State fairs have been canceled so far in 36 states and the District of Columbia.
“I got on Facebook one morning and I created a group,” said Ms. Lexvold, who lives in Forest Lake, about a half-hour drive from the fairgrounds. “I invited about 100 of my friends. I just said, ‘Hey, if you see any food stands around, post it to this page, so we can all go.’”
The group, Fair Food Finder, now has nearly 179,000 members, a Google map of 139 Minnesota vendors and a phone app created by an enthusiastic fan.
(State Fair To Go, a new business based in Minnetonka, Minn., ships boxes of Minnesota State Fair food within the continental United States. Each box costs $59.95 — with free shipping within the state — and contains six fair staples, including Elliott’s Up North corn dogs, Rosie’s French fries and Sweet Martha’s cookies. This week, the company began selling a $64.95 box of foods from the State Fair of Texas.)
By Marissa Conrad
Today’s Chefs Are Honoring a Vital Tradition: Feeding the Revolution
As Americans have taken to the streets demanding racial justice, restaurants and nonprofits have provided meals for them, building upon a long legacy of food as resistance.
By Ligaya Mishan
FRONT BURNER
Learn About ‘The Politics of the Potato’
A new book dives into the history, including the ties to government food policies in Europe, the United States and elsewhere.
By Florence Fabricant
FRONT BURNER
A Documentary on Women in the Restaurant Business
The 29-minute film follows three professionals as they manage working in male-dominated spaces.
Marielle Fabie in “A Woman’s Place.”
The 29-minute film follows Karyn Tomlinson, a Minneapolis chef; Marielle Fabie, the chef de cuisine at a ramen shop in Oakland, Calif.; and Etana Diaz, a butcher from Seattle, as they manage working in male-dominated spaces, contend with their parents’ aspirations for them and try to meet their personal goals.
“A Woman’s Place,” streaming on Hulu.
By Florence Fabricant
3 Highly Portable Picnic Options That Aren’t Sandwiches
Try Italian calzones, Turkish pide or Eastern European piroshki.
Calzones with roasted tomatoes, basil pesto and mozzarella.
By Jessica Battilana
A GOOD APPETITE
A Lighter, Brighter Meatball
Quickly made in a skillet with ripe peaches, basil and lime juice, these meatballs are perfect for weeknights.
By Melissa Clark
FROM THE PANTRY
Yet Another Use for Your Sheet Pan: Sugar Cookies
These simple frosted cookies are just the thing to share distantly — or hoard all for yourself.
By Melissa Clark
A Plum Crumble That Meets You Where You Are
Look to those graham crackers in the back of your cupboard, and put them to use in this simple dessert.
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Plum graham cracker crumble.
By Jerrelle Guy
Surly Beer Hall to close ‘indefinitely’ in November
Pandemics and beer halls just don’t mix, Surly said.
MELISSA TURTINEN
Anthony Martignetti (‘Anthony!’), Who Raced Home for Spaghetti, Dies at 63
He was a 12-year-old Italian immigrant when a classic TV commercial for Prince, the Boston pasta company, gave him a lasting identity.
Anthony Martignetti was 12 when he appeared in a TV commercial playing a boy in Boston’s Little Italy hungry for a plate of spaghetti.
By Sam Roberts
5 Standout Recipes From Julia Reed, an Irreverent Voice of the South
The journalist, who died last week at 59, mixed sophistication and down-home pleasures in her cooking.
Julia Reed speaking at the Mississippi Book Festival in 2015. She loved it all — a French 75, a thick Roman steak, chilled crab meat Maison or a pile of Gulf shrimp.
By Kim Severson