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Djon-djon rice (black mushroom rice). For many Haitian Americans, nothing beats a wild mushroom called djon-djon for a regular Sunday dinner staple, black mushroom rice. Food styled by Monica Pierini. (Linda Xiao, The New York Times)

The mushroom that’s a reminder of home

This recipe, from Natacha Gomez-Dupuy, the author of “Bak Fritay: Haitian Street Foods,” starts with soaking the mushrooms to create a broth, blending together a verdant, clove-scented epis seasoning, then...
The Tomato Pie from Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, which opened in 1925, in New Haven, Conn. on Oct. 2, 2023. In New Haven apizza nomenclature, the tomato pie, also known as a plain pie, is a thin-crust pizza blistered in a coal-fired oven and then covered with a thin layer of sauce and a sprinkling of grated Pecorino Romano — never Mozzarella. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times)

The many lives of tomato pie

The Italian American tomato pie is an elemental dish that lets its simple components -- a flatbread covered in tomato sauce — really sing.
Google's new $700 Pixel 8 lets you use artificial intelligence to add or remove elements from your images. It's not clear we really need this. (Derek Abella, The New York Times)

Smartphone photos are getting faker. Uh-oh?

Smartphone cameras became extremely powerful over the last five years. Their leap in quality was largely driven by advancements in computational photography, a technology that uses algorithms, artificial intelligence and...