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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 September 27, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Two children from Washington State ill from E. coli in raw milk
Keeping up with comments
A four-legged chicken lived for 18 months before being discovered
Foie Inanity Reaches New York
Should cows be raised in close proximity to produce
Raw milk and E. coli
Sous Vide Cuisine is available for purchase
Bathtub salmon sous vide
A neat glass pitcher that looks handy
Cross-breeding heirloom pigs and industrial principles