1.   Buy shrimp fresh off a rustic trawler in the shadow of glittering skyscrapers.

2.   He makes it from his own recipe and uses the same meat that he buys fresh every day for his hamburgers.

3.   If you buy it fresh, the odds are that it will be Atlantic, even though it may have come from the West Coast.

4.   More than a third is bought fresh from markets like this one.

5.   Most recipes call for shucked oysters, which you can buy fresh in a good fish market.

6.   Tree ears, a fungus used in Chinese and Southeast Asian cooking, can be bought fresh much of the year in Asian specialty markets in New York City.