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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 14, 2006...

I was also writing about:
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
The Agriculture Department has proposed a standard for grass-fed meat that doesn't say animals need pasture
Whole Foods to begin selling lobsters again
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
Why is it easier in America to buy drugs, guns and political favors than it is to buy a gallon of raw milk
When lab-grown meat is readily available what happens to the experience of eating meat