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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:
A guide to what fish you can safely eat
Lovely garlic scape photos and recipe ideas
QA with author and Batali apprentice Bill Buford
The Times looks at soldiers' food care packages in Iraq
How did I miss this Ed Levine post on fried clams
The great cilantro coriander debate
Wondering how come it's so expensive to go organic
A listing of good domestic rose wines
If you are not currently reading The Omnivores Dilemma
According to the Porkchop Express, May is National Hamburger Month