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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 February 14, 2007...

I was also writing about:
Chocolate cereal trend alert
A recap of Food Network slams and defenses
You're really cool when you order Secret Off the Menu Items
A food trend I'd like to see
Judges eat oysters and chocolate and then have sex
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
CookCamp will focus on food and health