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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 January 8, 2007...

I was also writing about:
Lately I've been enjoying milkshakes
Haagen-Dazs is running a contest for a new flavor on their site
Sticky Toffee Pudding ice cream to be available year round
Wine management software can produce an instant detailed inventory
You can buy absinthe from Europe online
Asking whether cloned meat and milk are safe is not even the right question
Picturing 200 calories worth of food
Going 1050 miles on 14 euros
Industrial pig waste contains a host of toxic substances
Three little babies were grilling on the spit