Federal agents detained a teenager who was on his way to school Thursday morning when he got a rapid response call for ...

Trader Joe's is packed with great items you can combine in a bento box for healthy, delicious lunches. The best part? They ...

Discover the history and cultural significance of the Japanese bento box, a balanced meal combined with artistic presentation.

Growing up outside of Tokyo, Chef Kenji Miyaishi’s mother used to send him off with bento boxes of onigiri rice balls, karaage fried chicken, tamago-yaki egg omelets and vegetables from her garden.

A typical bento box has a balance of dishes, most often including rice, meat or fish, and pickled vegetables. Kate Heddings is an experienced food writer and editor with a deep understanding of chefs, ...

This was a titan of a task. The Yukihira Evolved Nori Bento has to be the most elaborate recipe I have made to date from ...

Sure, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are easy, but your kids might want a little “extra” for their school lunch. Whether it’s a ham and cheese sandwich with mayonnaise or leftover pizza from the ...

In “Bento Monogatari,” a Belgian short film that was released in 2010, a woman makes her husband a bento box for lunch each day, in an attempt to salvage their marriage. Traditionally, bento is a ...

Strickler is the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World and the Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter. We don’t think of the bento box as an important innovation, ...

Bento means lunch or lunch box. But for most Japanese home cooks, the act of preparing a bento box can mean much more than that. A bento box represents a mother’s love for her family. For centuries, ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Endlessly adaptable, a bento-box lunch comes to the rescue as school begins, Kenji López-Alt writes. Joel Goldberg for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Hadas Smirnoff.Credit... Supported by By J.