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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 9, 2007...

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Japanese tea photo from Flickr user Yoppy
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Until the 19th century the average Japanese had never eaten beef
A lentil and pomegranate salad recipe accompanies The Department's lovely photo
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