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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 28, 2006...

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My husband writes an open letter to Michael Pollan about my growing food obsessions
Bourdain says Achatz will be greatest chef in five years
A woman lives right by the Union Square Greenmarket and does all her shopping there
Herve This and the 67 degree egg
Wired on Achatz and Alinea
Pete Wells on disorientation, imitation, emotion, and perfection at Alinea
Saute Wednesdays Keller vs Blumenthal showdown
Someone's pissed off about Bill Buford's fact checking in the NYer