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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 9, 2007...

I was also writing about:
The 300 dollar kitchen equipment plan
Han Solo carbonite chocolate bar how to
A Times editorial weighs in on chefs and debt
Melamine plus cyanuric acid caused pet food problems
Megnut is a house of lies
Kool Aid pickles are cool
Updating the five second rule
More melamine contamination found now in fish
Sexism in the kitchen
2006 is the year the wine market went mad