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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 July 25, 2006...

I was also writing about:
food tattoos
Do oysters have souls?
Medium rare pork
Foie love: A level field
Can a recipe be stolen
I always look to Accidental Hedonist for information about mad cow
A reader wonders about the ethics of my La Cense beef review
Enjoying the Vegan Guide to NYC
At epilog I'm going some virtual traveling
New feature article: The sweet and bittersweet taste of summer