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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 May 9, 2006...

I was also writing about:
When your recipe goes wrong
A pickle launch party
I love a good cookbook meme
What's that green thing?
Leftover live from the James Beard Awards
Trouble at organic dairies?
Profile of an organic berry farmer in California
What does organic really mean
My favorite way to prepare ramps
Are chefs libertarians?