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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 August 22, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Last year, Pim made delicious french fries with horse fat
A review of an interesting-sounding book on the history of vegetarianism
A new public television series Diary of a Foodie
How unethical is your supper
The benefits of traditionally prepared soy foods
Another look at helping children eat healthy lunch
Improving public school lunch
gourmet podcasts
A little Whole Foods confusion
A designer wonders if the dials on stoves could be better designed