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EVER SINCE I was a sticky-fingered kid, plucking blackcaps and blueberries from the brambly trails of southern New England, I’ve considered the staccato “kurplink, kurplank, kurplunk” of berries hitting a bucket the defining music of midsummer. These days my berry-picking forays are fewer and further between—a fact I make up for by shopping with abandon when the fruits make their annual appearance at the market. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, even gooseberries and currants—for a few ecstatic, juice-streaked weeks a year, my kitchen is a parade of pancakes and pies, cocktails and chutneys.

Of course, all rituals require totems—and during this summer bacchanal, mine is a berry bowl. A pottery vessel about a hand’s width in diameter and perforated with a scattering of small holes, it is essentially a petite ceramic colander: just big enough to rinse a cup or two of berries.

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