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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 June 12, 2006...

I was also writing about:
US Agriculture Department create a special USDA seal verifying grass fed beef
Bookslut has a good interview with Anthony Bourdain
Martin Kastner actually designed the utensils I mentioned in my Alinea write up
Handy walletsized shopper's guide to pesticides
BBC article with tips on how to prevent food poisoning
The Big Apple BBQ Review
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project is a wonderful collection of old cookbooks
Nice article about grass-fed animal farms in Texas
What's the deal with the new ads?
The New York Times on natural beef