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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 May 30, 2007...

I was also writing about:
Some thoughts about the Shacklash
Benefits of grass feeding
Heritage meat statistics
Commercial turkeys have lost their ability to fly
If we want to save the animals we must eat them
Commercial turkey is selected to efficiently produce meat at low cost
Heritage meats are like four-legged versions of the heirloom tomato
Heritage and heirloom day
The everpresent kids' menu
Birds aren't mammals but are milk fed