EditorialCutlery ready for packing at Gate Gourmet, a global airline catering company that provides meals to flights out of more than 200 airports, at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, Nov. 29, 2022. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialDirt deposited by floodwater is caked on plates and cutlery at Maria Cortés Davila’s home in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2022.(Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Times)
EditorialSupplies from a food services truck are rolled into the School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas on Sept. 22, 2021, where the district’s schools offer mostly finger foods for breakfast on some days, to slow the use of their dwindling plastic cutlery supply. (Cooper Neill/The New York Times)
EditorialHerbs are chopped as food prep proceeds for a wedding at The Inn at Kenmore Hall in Richmond, Mass., Aug. 7, 2021. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)