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)