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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 December 12, 2006...

I was also writing about:
Does the purchase of Fairtrade coffee encourage the over-production of coffee
Is a restaurant worth its conscionable weight if it doesn't offer its employees health insurance
Today's Etsy holiday gift idea is this way cool towel set
Recently I learned how to make braised chicken wings with Daniel Boulud
Munching fishbrain bread from Finland
I'm happy to announce that I'm participating in the Menu for Hope
Lovely hand-drawn sushi instructions from Flickr user MontanaRaven
Today only 13 slaughterhouses process the majority of the beef consumed by 300 million Americans
Today's gift suggestion is a Llama Felt Snowman Ornament
The term molecular gastronomy does not describe our cooking