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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 1, 2006...

I was also writing about:
The work for which we reserve top honors this year isn’t a cookbook
A basic understanding of the physics involved with heating food can help all of us become better cooks
Around the world, competitive oyster shucking has come of age
Sticky toffee pudding ice cream is available
A special preview for Megnut readers
Win a Shake Shack t-shirt autographed by Danny Meyer!
Becoming soy-a-holics and automatically downing anything made from soybeans is not the road to health
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