EditorialEda Unlu keeps a large pot of lentil soup warm over the embers of a fire someone had built earlier, using what appeared to be pieces of broken furniture as fuel, in Antakya, Turkey on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (Vivian Yee/The New York Times)
EditorialDahi vada, which is something like a lentil spongecake, at Masalawala & Sons, a Bengali restaurant in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, Jan. 15, 2023. (Adam Friedlander/The New York Times)
EditorialTsirani vosp apur (Armenian apricot and lentil soup) in New York, June 7, 2022. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (David Malosh/The New York Times)
EditorialPalestinian chefs cook the biggest local Palestinian traditional dish of Mujaddara, a mix of lentil and onion cooked with steamed rise during attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records, in the West Bank city of Jericho, Jericho, West Bank, Palestinian T
EditorialFrom left, a brightly spiced lentil loaf, a smoky lentil stew and a pasta with lentils and fennel, in New York, Oct. 23, 2020. (Andrew Scrivani/The New York Times)