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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 October 30, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Cartoon recipe for creamy corn chowder
Battle bloody sleeve
Gourmet's editors blogging about things like vegemite and onions
Making apple butter
There's something that I call chicken guilt
Four microphones, a table, and 90 minutes of dead air
Brussels sprouts have arrived at my local farmer's market
Crawly cakes for Halloween over at Not Martha
You are not one to sit on the cider-lines
When produce is in season in your area