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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 5, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Everything's local with Fed Ex
From last summer the new york diet
A bit more information on fizzy fruit
A day in the life of a New York City sous chef
If you live in Florida you may soon be able to dine with your dog
Behind the laboratory door is a too short look at the laboratory of El Bulli
Mushrooms may soon be able to satisfy humans need for vitamin D
Knife rules Know your music when using knives
Yesterdays New York Times Magazine has three good articles
BW film photos of a meal at the French Laundry