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Recipes

This Week’s Recipes

James River Corn Pudding
Peanut Noodles With Shrimp
Grilled Clams With Lemon-Cayenne Butter
Grilled Pork Skewers with Peanut-Basil Sauce
PBJ Sandwich Cookies
Boeuf Bourguignon
Smoked Trout Spread
Mushrooms in Lettuce Wraps
Lavender Mojito
Pan-Roasted Corn and Tomato Salad
Grilled Porgies and Onions
Lavender Syrup

Preserving those berries

Prolonging the Life of Berries
By HAROLD McGEE
Published: August 25, 2009

ONE of summer’s great pleasures is eating berries of all kinds by the basketful. One of summer’s great frustrations is having baskets of berries go moldy overnight, or even by nightfall. More

Now Entering Upper Michigan’s Smoked Fish Zone

FOLLOW THE SIGNS Smoking fish is a way of life in the Upper Peninsula. Trout on a rack at King’s.
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
Published: August 25, 2009
PARADISE, Mich.

IN the time it takes most people to finish a cup of coffee, Tom Ryan Brown has cleaned, gutted and placed a whole whitefish in a barrel of brine, where it will rest for hours before it is stacked in a smoking shed outside. More

Another One Packs It In

Good Tips at the End of His Meals

HAIL TO A CHEF Naomichi Yasuda of Sushi Yasuda in Midtown.
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: August 26, 2009

QUESTIONS upon questions upon questions: they’re a restaurant critic’s real diet, fed to him by friends and strangers, in phone calls and e-mail messages, at cocktail parties and the gym. Say the words, “I’m a restaurant critic,” and the floodgates open. More

For anybody out there that wants to give me a castle...

Ackergill Tower, a historic estate dating to 1476, is on Sinclair's Bay in the northeast corner of the Scottish Highlands. More Photos >
By LISA KEYS
Published: August 25, 2009
15TH-CENTURY WATERFRONT CASTLE IN THE HIGHLANDS

How do you forget an elephant?

Showcase: Forgotten Elephants

$300 a Night? Yes, but Haying’s Free

THE FOOD CONNECTION Chickens roam empty guest quarters at Stony Creek Farms in Walton, N.Y., owned by Kate Marsiglio and her family. Guests sign up to do farm chores. More Photos >
By KIM SEVERSON
Published: August 25, 2009

Isaac and Lucia Marsiglio at their farm in the Catskills. More Photos >

LET me start by saying that if you want to throw bales of hay into the back of a truck, Vans are not the best choice in footwear. More

Anticipation

I've been dreading the phone bill: $8.40 international roaming and $56.91 international data.