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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 31, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Two podcasts with Anthony Bourdain from Off the Broiler
A recipe for strawberry soup from Heston Blumenthal
Suzanne Goin's Caramelized Bread Pudding with Chocolate and Cinnamon recipe
A guide to what fish you can safely eat
Lovely garlic scape photos and recipe ideas
The Times looks at soldiers' food care packages in Iraq
How did I miss this Ed Levine post on fried clams
Sam writes with info about coriander
The great cilantro coriander debate
Wondering how come it's so expensive to go organic