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recent features

The sweet (and bittersweet) taste of summer

Summer drinks should be like summer evenings: long, light and cool. Guest writer A.D. introduces some less common ones to enliven our senses during these wonderful long hot days.

Strawberry Fields Forever

Food traditions bind my family; I'm reminded of that every year when I drive to north-central Massachusetts to pick strawberries with my grandparents.

Comparing Frozen Fish to Fresh

My mother swears by frozen fish. I was unconvinced, and decided to put her statements to the test: could flash-frozen fish taste as good as fresh local fish from the Greenmarket or even fresh fish from a local supermarket?

around October 18, 2004...

I was also writing about:
Keller on cooking and success
The joy of a nice knife
Holiday present for an aspiring cook
You do learn something new every day
Kitchen tales and pranks
Tuna is getting less appealing every day
Masking tape kitchen silliness
Some questions and answers about cooking
Two geek in the kitchen stories
On the island soup front