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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 28, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Wondering why you'd even want dry aged beef
Some instructions for how to dry age beef at home
Iron Chef Morimoto's recommendations for Tokyo
The R-months are coming and that means it's time to eat oysters
Photos of ice cream trucks and memories
Alinea chef Grant Achatz has a recipe for experimental home cooks
Grape juice not so wine-like afterall
Eating a varied diet of fresh unprocessed food is always better
Steingarten foie gras article now online
Robust grape juices that taste like wine