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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 June 5, 2007...

I was also writing about:
Making cheese out of human breast milk
Wagyu steak salad at Per Se
Sushi facts and fiction
Cook asparagus between firm and limp
People yearn to break bread with neighbors
What an Ecuadorian family eats in a week
On a fruit shortcake bender
More sausage makers less bakers
The wait in a long line for cupcakes trend continues
Some thoughts about the Shacklash