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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 25, 2006...

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Frank Bruni tries to kill himself by eating 42 fast food meals
There's an eGullet thread on the best food blogs
GQ heads to Chicago and discovers a new direction for American food
Audio from the BBC's The Food Programme about frozen food
Following the life of a pig
A sort of report from the FDA on benzene levels in soda