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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 September 21, 2006...

I was also writing about:
You can cook salmon in a dishwasher
Did you know there are knives just for lefties
How to sharpen a serrated knife
Wednesday's post on babies and tipping has an interesting discussion going
A creamy taste of Innsbruck
Parents Against Junk Food is non profit organization devoted to eliminating junk food from our public school system
By fingering any spinach as suspicious the FDA isn’t educating anyone
Bruni's struggles to get a Per Se reservation
Sherry-Lehmann selling very old Chateau Palmers at very high prices
Poor service at Freemans