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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 February 13, 2007...

I was also writing about:
Spin the Wheel of Food
Cooking the entire French Laundry Cookbook
A national fish fakery problem
Foie Gras battle heating up in New York City
Introduction of the Cloned Food Labeling Act
Step by step guide to Alinea's Short rib dish
Uncle Ernies fish and my vacation
Cows need corn for vitamins and minerals
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