It arrived just in time for a major heat wave: a big project devoted to simple salads, with 20 recipes from New York Times Cooking that capture all that is fresh and fragrant and vibrant in summer. These are what you make for dinner when you can’t fathom turning on the oven, and you pair it with an icy cold drink. You’ll see a few of the salad recipes below are from Genevieve Ko, the extraordinary editor and writer who […]
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Sign up for Consumer Brands SmartBrief today, free. Flavor preferences have shifted over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Classic, nostalgic comfort foods dominated consumer desires when lockdowns began and persisted through 2021, but more shoppers are seeking more adventurous foods in 2022. According to this year’s Frito-Lay Summer Snack Index, 41% of consumers report they would choose interesting flavor combinations such as spicy and sweet over familiar flavors. “During the summer, people explore new activities, new places and enjoy […]
Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer’s newsletter about living through climate change, here. For the past few days, a heat wave of mind-boggling scale and intensity has gripped South Asia. More than 1 billion people in India and Pakistan have endured daytime highs of 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Delhi, the world’s second-largest city, has suffered through back-to-back days of 110-degree Fahrenheit heat. And Nawabshah, Pakistan—a city of nearly 230,000 people in the country’s desert south—came […]
Summer is the season of chomping on frozen desserts. When it gets difficult to beat the heat, kulfi instantly comes to our rescue during this time of the year. We all have grown up gorging on a variety of kulfis in the summer season. Apart from its flavours, there’s also a sense of nostalgia associated with this special delight. Smooth, buttery and sweet kulfis are bound to lift the mood on a dull and tiring day. A full-fledged dinner followed […]
