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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 7, 2007...

I was also writing about:
More melamine contamination found now in fish
Sexism in the kitchen
2006 is the year the wine market went mad
The culinary school financial trap
Chang and Keller win at the Beard Awards
Splitting the check amongst a big party is never fair
Poor farmers could benefit by change to organic farming
Fake eggs in China story a fake
Use smaller plates to control portion size
Steaming beer mugs of frog juice for sale in Peru