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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:
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
Looking for a bad-ass gift for a chef in training
For a current account of war food
A Q&A with Nina Planck
News about the new beyond greenmarkets set to open in Manhattan
Long letter from Whole Foods to Michael Pollan