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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 4, 2006...

I was also writing about:
What you're really celebrating with Cinco de Mayo
Wondering how to taste wine
Feeding Desire at the Cooper-Hewitt
Correlation between a lack of food and obesity
Looking at food miles
The hunt for porcinis and other wild mushrooms
Pan roasted quail recipe
Roasting a duck
The foie gras battle is spreading
Cooking like an ancient Roman