EditorialAndrea Nguyen with her most beloved kitchen utensil, her rice paper dipping bowl, at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif., Jan. 14, 2023. (Chloe Aftel/The New York Times)
EditorialA fentanyl test kit, which requires dissolving a small drug sample into water, and then dipping a strip into it, in the Bronx borough of New York, where overdose deaths are high, Aug. 8, 2022. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Fournet, a marine acoustic ecologist at the University of New Hampshire who has been trying to decipher humpback whale communication, listens after dipping her hydrophone underwater, in Rye, N.H., Aug. 25, 2022. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
EditorialA tray of water with acrylic paint for dipping flowers, part of Kristen Alpaugh’s class in floral arranging at the Museum of Art and Design, in New York, May 17, 2022. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael Lang with an associate, Lee Blumer, at the site of the Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y., in August 1989, its 20th anniversary. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Vietnamese-inspired Italian beef at Phodega includes thinly sliced rib-eye and comes with a side of pho broth for dipping, in Chicago, Dec. 1, 2021. (Anjali Pinto/The New York Times)
EditorialChile crisp, a spicy-crunchy condiment originally from China’s Guizhou Province, seasons the tofu-and-vegetable filling in the dumplings and the accompanying dipping sauce, in New York on Jan. 22, 2021. (Christopher Simpson/The New York Times)
EditorialBollito misto with vegetables and two dipping sauces along with glasses of a reduced broth as a amuse-bouche in New York, Jan. 25, 2020. (Andrew Scrivani/The New York Times)