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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 November 30, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Chocolate advent calendar adventures
Classic Turducken is a created by deboning and layering a whole turkey, duck and chicken
I looked toward Per Se’s blue door and a secret garden
A slideshow of favorite cookies from Gourmet
Making a gingerbread house
These types of bills aren't about foie gras as much as they are about animal cruelty
Frisee. Such a space-taker on the plate, so hard to pick up with a fork
A nice travelogue from a recent trip to Puglia
Jones Soda switches to pure cane sugar
Eight hours into cooking the dish, I now realise Heston Blumenthal is a devil