Maybe you’ve seen them in a Studio Ghibli movie, or maybe you’ve seen them in a TikTok tutorial. What is there to learn from bento boxes that are suddenly popping up in Western culture? To put it ...

I have a confession to make – when it comes to cooking and meal preparation, I am not exactly the most creative. In fact, if you ask my husband and kids what our weekly meals consist of, they will ...

Think bento box lunches are way too much work? They don't have to be! Use this guide to pack lunch for the whole week in less than an hour. Bento box-style lunches have been all the rage on Instagram ...

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.

After almost two years of Zoom school, it may finally be time to brush up on your bag lunch game with a bento box. To get the kids excited for school again — while also making sure they stay as safe ...

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, ...