EditorialThe sculptor Linda Christensen carves Princess Kay of the Milky Way Rebekah Dammann's likeness out of butter at the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 25, 2005. (Ingrid Young/The New York Times)
EditorialA robot carves a replica of a horse head, one of the Parthenon Marbles, at a workshop in Carrara, Italy, in June 2022. (Francesca Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialEricke Tan carves a lechón, a slowly roasted suckling pig dish popular in the Philippines, at her family’s home on Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, Nov. 26, 2020. (Rozette Rago/The New York Times)
EditorialArmando Vera carves a cow head for barbacoa at Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que, which was honored last week as one of “America’s Classics” by the James Beard Foundation, in Brownsville, Texas on Jan. 27, 2020. (Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times)