Restaurants all over the country are adapting their businesses to accommodate social distancing, and that includes the historic ones. According to CNN, for the first time in its 132-year history, famed New York City pastrami purveyor Katz’s Delicatessen is offering outdoor seating.

Do you like aluminum cans? Of course you do. Aluminum cans can be filled with so many tasty liquids, like soda, beer, or crab juice. But you know who hates cans? Coronavirus.

It’s been a little while since we’ve had a good fight over which foods best represent an entire state. So now we bring you Insider’s latest list, the “most iconic food” in every state, a follow-up to May’s list of iconic sandwiches. There’s some overlap, which I guess is to be expected in states that are best known…

Back in March, as I slowly began to grasp the reality of our new world, one of the first things I mourned was the Coca-Cola Freestyle Machine. I understand this is a very crazy thing to be upset about considering, well, literally everything else in the news, but I have a very special connection to these very special…

As New York City moves into Phase Whatever, diners of all kinds have begun to return to restaurants—but mostly humans and rats.

Update, July 13, 2020: Commenter SoftPretzels&WooderIce visited Alma Del Mar over the weekend, accompanied by a human companion and a very good dog. They ordered the lobster Benedict with Old Bay hollandaise and molletes, “an open-faced sandwich on a bolillo roll with refried beans, homemade chorizo and melty cheese,”…

Update, July 13, 2020: Never give Twitter an entire weekend to focus on a meaningless news story (or “news” “story”). Objects That Turn Out To Be Cakes has become a full-fledged meme, and even more mesmerizing examples have risen to the surface of the discourse to delight, confuse, and awe us.

Welcome to Turn Off The Oven Week, featuring creative ways to beat the heat and stay far away from your stovetop.

Welcome to Turn Off The Oven Week, featuring creative ways to beat the heat and stay far away from your stovetop.

Oh, Reddit, what would we do without you in these dark, unprecedented times? From burying beans in our yards to mysterious proprietary sandwich recipes to Waffle House feuds, you’ve given us so many potentially genius ideas to reflect upon, pushing our limits of imagination, reminding us that we need to think…

About three years ago, I removed a pig’s face from its skull, packed it with herbs, zest, and spices, and sous-vided it for many hours to make a porchetta di testa. This process was recorded and made into a video (my first for Lifehacker), and it made a lot of people very angry.

Update, July 10th, 2020: Panda Express is now the latest food brand to do a collaboration with a well known streetwear brand. Starting tomorrow morning, hungry hypebeasts can queue up on the Anti Social Social Club website, where a limited collection of Panda Express t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats will go on sale at…

I eat some sort of dessert every single night, because I love dessert and see zero reason to deprive myself of it. Most of the time it’s something that takes seconds to put together, like ice cream from the carton or a peanut butter, chocolate, and banana sandwich with a tall glass of cream-spiked milk. I rarely make…

Kitchenware retailer Sur La Table has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in this cuckoo crazy coronavirus world. I must remind you that filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy does not mean a company is going out of business—it means it’s working on reorganizing its debt and restructuring so that it has a chance to…