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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:
Loving liverwurst
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
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