EditorialWatermelon chaat in New York, May 6, 2021. Props styled by Paige Hicks. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (Christopher Simpson/The New York Times)
EditorialRuokun Yu, left, and her business partner, Chunmei Tong, on Jan. 10, 2021, opened their shaobing stall in Flushing, Queens, in the middle of the pandemic. (Alex Lau/The New York Times)
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa, native to Asia. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1...
EditorialWild cumin, Lagoecia cuminoides. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500...
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek...
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek...
EditorialMacholebum, Cuminum sativum, Illustration of a plant called Macholebum and a cumin from the 16th century, Fig. 197, p. 205r, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi Sime...
EditorialCuminum fativum, Cumin, Fol. 264v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialCumin and other wild wild cumin, Caraway type, Fol. 265r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialVetch stick, cumin - stick, Parallel Title: Wicken Staff and Caraway Ruthe, Signed: J. G. Thelot sculps, copperplate, plate DCXI, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Thelot, Jacob Gottlieb (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspurg und...
EditorialMeridian fennel or Persian cumin, Carum carvi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek...
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek...
EditorialMeridian fennel or Persian cumin, Carum carvi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek...
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek...
EditorialCumin, Cuminum cyminum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialCaraway, meridian fennel or Persian cumin, Carum carvi (Carum carui). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa, and love-in-a-mist, Nigella damascena. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialCumin, Cuminum cyminum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialFennel, Foeniculum vulgare 1, and black cumin, Nigella sativa 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.
EditorialAnise or aniseed, Pimpinella anisum 1, and cumin, Cuminum cyminum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.
EditorialCumin, Cuminum cyminum. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly b...
EditorialCumin, Cuminum cyminum, showing flower, leaf, root and seed. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. ...
EditorialBlack cumin, Nigella sativa, native to Asia. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1...
EditorialWild cumin, Lagoecia cuminoides. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500...