• Frank Bruni ranks his top ten new restaurants outside New York. • How to cook dinner without waking your baby. Hint: use plastic forks.
• It's OK to pair oysters with red wine now, says Eric Asimov.
• The new breed of bars are more like bistros, with nearly full menus.
• West Coast frozen yogurt stores, led by Pinkberry, descend on Manhattan. Godzilla-style madness ensues.
• The Minimalist cooks with canned tomatoes, with a video on roasted tomato soup.
• Alex Witchel writes about bigos, Polish sauerkraut soup; Elaine Louie discusses a one pot recipe for homemade meatball sausage cooked with tomato sauce.
• Charlie Trotter will open a restaurant on Madison Avenue.
• We all need dried cherries, artisan cheeses and bamboo shopping bags...














