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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 January 16, 2007...

I was also writing about:
Mini salami are so cute
At what point does hiring someone to achieve a certain look or style in a restaurant turn into racism
Flickr user Rakka's awesome Nintendo DS cake
End the tyranny of dark chocolate
Nine pages on Grant Achatz may only appeal to the die hard Alinea fan
Easy chopoper makes julienne for lazy prep cooks
Buy a greenwashed product and buy specific set of values.
How natural is natural food?
I usually have on hand several different kinds of rice
Japanese tea photo from Flickr user Yoppy