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Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

More about Project Takeout

The Globe is asking readers, if they can, to get takeout and help our local restaurants get through this dark winter.

Tell us your favorite restaurants

Explore a map of some local restaurants and submit your hometown favorites

FOOD
Rutchada Thai Cuisine was ‘meant to be’
A late-night decision to open a restaurant leads to a menu of classics in Roslindale.

RESTAURANT HIBERNATIONS

Here’s a running list of Boston-area restaurants hibernating for the winter

These establishments are taking a temporary hiatus. Look for them again come spring.

LATEST FOOD & DINING HEADLINES

TABLES
A tavern comes to Brookline; a beer hall opens in Belmont; and Del’s Lemonade plans a Massachusetts flagship
Restaurant news you can use.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING | DEVRA FIRST
At The Federal, a miracle to go: perfectly cooked steak
The steakhouse model doesn’t lend itself to takeout, but restaurants are finding ways to make it work.

Chapter 1: The exquisite normalcy of chopping an onion

Welcome to the apocalypse. It’s going to be delicious.

Chapter 2: Soooo. I hear you bought some beans.

Beans have always been a punch line, an insult, unfairly maligned. The musical fruit. Something you’re full of. A whole hill of them? Not worth much.

Chapter 3: Herbs might save us

Don’t forget to celebrate spring.

Chapter 4: Let a nation of bread bakers arise

Often seen as the final, intimidating frontier of baking, bread is now becoming our national project.

Chapter 5: The freezer is a time capsule

Today I took out a tub of soup from the freezer. Turkey barley. My mother brought it the last time she visited. Once it’s gone, I don’t know when I’ll taste my mother’s cooking again.

Chapter 6: Cabbage, a love story

During the Great Potato Famine, cabbage was there for Ireland. And during the Great Sequestration of 2020, cabbage is here for you. For an uncannily long time.

Chapter 7: The Ghosts of Quarantine Future

Weeks ahead of us, what have the people in Italy learned about life in quarantine that we, now, might learn from them?

MORE FOOD & DINING HEADLINES

PROJECT TAKEOUT

Should your takeout packaging go in the recycling bin, compost pile, or trash can? Here are some tips

If you’ve brought your restaurant routine home during the pandemic, you may be wondering what to do with all of those disposables. We were wondering, too.

FOOD

From patios to pop-ups, hotel chef David Bazirgan finds room to grow

Tourism is down, but at Bambara, David Bazirgan’s spirits are up.

FOOD

Teas with Rwandan roots that aim to do good

Sales of 3 Mountains teas help fund Stender Delaney’s nonprofit Africa Healing Exchange.

A simmer sauce worthy of all the praise it’s getting

Sutter Buttes Indian Butter Chicken Simmer Sauce won the Specialty Food Association’s top “new product” award this year in the sauce category. There’s a good reason for that.

Make your own corn tortillas from (almost) scratch

Once you discover how easy it is to make fresh tortillas — and enjoy their toasty-warm corn flavor and alluring aroma — you won’t want to go back to supermarket brands.

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Recipes: 4 tropical desserts to brighten the end of any meal

Recipe: Peanut-butter bars are topped with peanuts and studded with chocolate chips

At The Federal, a miracle to go: perfectly cooked steak

Make your own corn tortillas from (almost) scratch

Once you discover how easy it is to make fresh tortillas — and enjoy their toasty-warm corn flavor and alluring aroma — you won’t want to go back to supermarket brands.

QUICK BITE

At Mikkusu, a talented chef bides her time

Cloud & Spirits opens soon, but in the meantime, this temporary shop sells delightful Japanese sandwiches from Katie Cheung.

TABLES

Tim and Bronwyn Wiechmann plan a Lincoln restaurant, and hot chicken comes to Allston

Restaurant news you can use.

SIPS

Celebrating the Irish poitín

The clear spirit is an ancestor of Irish whiskey, much like mezcal, which traditionally comes from small, family-run operations, is the forebear of tequila.

Restaurants we supported this week

Want to order from local, independent restaurants? Here are some suggestions from Globe staff.

Sandpiper Bakery is growing — and moving to Ipswich

Susanne Clermont and Molly Friedman needed a bigger kitchen for their croissants, cookies, sandwiches, and quiches. Soon they’ll add new cakes, tarts, soups, toasts, and salads.

Art and function in these flour sack towels

Pauline Stevens, a food photographer, has turned her photos into designs.

‘Eastern Standard will forever be the standard in our eyes’: Readers recall scenes from life moments, big and small

When news broke last week that Eastern Standard, The Hawthorne, and Island Creek Oyster Bar wouldn’t reopen, we asked readers to write in with their remembrances of the storied spaces. They delivered.