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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 14, 2006...

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New York magazine's new food blog launches today
If a mass-marketed coffee product is as close as I'm going to get to the godfather of molecular gastronomy
Getting too full during a great meal
New super-thick foamy espesso by Ferran Adria is bleh
Whole Foods to begin selling lobsters again
Two Chicago alderman file to have Chicago foie gras ban repealed
Adam hates his meal at Le Cirque in a way he's never hated a meal before
Former Blue Hill at Stone Barns executive chef MIchael Anthony to be new executive chef at Gramercy Tavern
A trip to Austria is all about the wurst