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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:
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
The Guardian has a best of the food blogs and Megnut makes the list
the coming rise of aquaculture
eGullet trailed Grant Achatz and crew as they worked to open Alinea
Alinea's most exciting food
Doityourself carbonated fruit using dry ice
Bill Buford talks about and reads from his new book on NPR