When the temperature is in the triple digits and the sun feels like it’s going to sear your skull, sometimes all you want to eat is a bowl of soup. Right? Well, if it’s a chilled gazpacho, yeah. We’ve got two very different alternatives for you to try this week.
In the news: Amazon is getting into the food business in a big way, with a couple of ambitious rollouts; why that Consumer Reports ground beef story wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be; the perennial question of salting or not salting eggplant; and bacon-wrapped pork belly.