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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 2, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Decodan specializes in reconditioned, vintage small appliances
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
Lecture by author Susan Allport about omega-3s
Dodging a bullet for thousands of years with crazy death-traps called farms
Marathoning chefs dish up the perfect meals for race weekend
Two of the books mentioned in the raw milk article
Raw milk advocates and food safety advances