EditorialBaker Amadou Ly, who specializes in lamination, the exacting process that transforms butter, flour and yeast into a supple, silky dough, in Alf Bakery in New York on March 13, 2023. (Julia Gartland/The New York Times)
EditorialYanomami people piling bags of flour, rice and beans alongside clothes, pillows and tins of sardines taken from a mining cabin before it was burned, in the Yanomami Indigenous territory of Brazil, on Feb. 24, 2023. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialYanomami people piling bags of flour, rice and beans alongside clothes, pillows and tins of sardines taken from a mining cabin before it was burned, in the Yanomami Indigenous territory of Brazil, on Feb. 24, 2023. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialYanomami people piling bags of flour, rice and beans alongside clothes, pillows and tins of sardines taken from a mining cabin before it was burned, in the Yanomami Indigenous territory of Brazil, on Feb. 24, 2023. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialYanomami people piling bags of flour, rice and beans alongside clothes, pillows and tins of sardines taken from a mining cabin before it was burned, in the Yanomami Indigenous territory of Brazil, on Feb. 24, 2023. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialYanomami people piling bags of flour, rice and beans alongside clothes, pillows and tins of sardines taken from a mining cabin before it was burned, in the Yanomami Indigenous territory of Brazil, on Feb. 24, 2023. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialA nun paints a Torma, a figure made of flour and butter that is made as an offering in Buddhist rituals, at Druk Amitabha Nunnery, on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 4, 2023. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialA nun paints a Torma, a figure made of flour and butter that is made as an offering in Buddhist rituals, at Druk Amitabha Nunnery, on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 4, 2023. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialA nun paints a Torma, a figure made of flour and butter that is made as an offering in Buddhist rituals, at Druk Amitabha Nunnery, on a hill overlooking Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 4, 2023. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialClaudia Arndt and her dog, Susto, in the basement that has become a hub for storing extra supplies in Johannesberg, Germany, on Sept. 5, 2022. (Valentin Goppel/The New York Times)
EditorialClaudia Arndt and her dog, Susto, in the basement that has become a hub for storing extra supplies in Johannesberg, Germany, on Sept. 5, 2022. (Valentin Goppel/The New York Times)
EditorialCuneiform tablet: flour deliveries for rent payment, Ebabbar archive, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 7th?6th century B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba), Babylonian, Clay, 1.1 x 2.36 x .77 in. (2.8 x 6 x 1.95 cm), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialWindmill, with miller. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Detail] Lower margin. The miller, with a wooden shovel in his belt, hands a large sack of flour to a woman, who takes it on her shoulders. A dog sits on the tailpole of t...
EditorialA customer carries a baguette from the bakery owned by Serge and Marie Pinquet in Crecy-la-Chapelle, France, Oct. 12, 2022. (Violette Franchi/The New York Times)
EditorialA sponge of yeast, bread flour and water is mixed into dough for challah bread in New York, Aug. 22, 2022. Food styled by Laurie Ellen Pellicano. (Armando Rafael/The New York Times)