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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 3, 2006...

I was also writing about:
We have come to reappreciate the egg at dinner
Did you know that far more New Yorker cartoons deal with food than with sex?
RIP Johnny Apple
What to Drink, a review
The incongruity of serving fair-trade products in elitist establishments
Buying genetically modified tomatoes covered in pesticides
Perlow has a birthday dinner at Eleven Madison Park
Frytastic Apples
David Lebovitz has a great interview with Page and Dornenburg
The first chapter of The Queen of Fats is available online