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Megnut is a site about food written by Meg Hourihan. She lives in NYC. More...

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 9, 2006...

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Questioning the value of seasonal eating
Is soy the next corn
What is biodynamics?
10 kitchen tips from the pros
Two beautiful words bacon mayo
Hooray Cholesterol t-shirt from Threadless
Gadget: Peppergun
An archive of Michael Ruhlmans Megnut posts
Crushpad lets you make your own wine