Photo: Todd Porter and Diane Cu

The sweet, little, red berries hitting greenmarkets right now look nothing like those freakishly large, hard, white-on-the-inside berries sold in supermarkets during the rest of the year. Now's the time to enjoy them, and chef and strawberry lover Cristina Ferrare has a ton of ideas. Her Strawberry Pie and Strawberry Shortcake (pictured) are both dazzling crowd-pleasers, and if you aren't up for doing some baking, she has plenty of simple suggestions for incorporating strawberries into breakfasts and snacks.