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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 May 10, 2007...

I was also writing about:
All organic for a month for two people for 320 dollars
Foie gras ducks don't wear shoes so neither should we
The accidental ingestion of a $62 burger
Junk food should look like junk food
The 300 dollar kitchen equipment plan
A Times editorial weighs in on chefs and debt
Melamine plus cyanuric acid caused pet food problems
Megnut is a house of lies
How do you get toddlers to eat vegetables
Kool Aid pickles are cool