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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 27, 2006...

I was also writing about:
predicting World Cup results by a nation's food
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
Why American chefs have taken up sous vide
Foodite's collection of Molecular Gastronomy information is a good introduction to the subject
Cook like Cantu and Achatz with your own anti-griddle
Thoughts about The End of the Plate
How to cure pork in a small New York apartment