Frank Bruni chronicles five meals he recently had in which he and a companion ate at least three courses for $100 or less. I'm in love with the description of a baked cauliflower dish as "promiscuously cheesy and hammy."- Ordering wine from the bottom of the list.
- Lobster prices are lower than they've been in years (mostly due to the closure of Canadian processing plants) and so Melissa Clark prepares lobster a three ways to celebrate the discount prices.
- Persimmons are something of a mystery to many home cooks, so Harold McGee sets out to unravel their mysteries and make up two lovely steamed pudding out of them.
- The economy has led many folks to give up the restaurant habit and eat at home. Marian Burros talks with several people who have revamped the ways that they eat.
- Corton gets the Frank Bruni treatment and comes away with three stars.
- The Minimalist makes sorbet using nothing more than frozen fruit, a few ingredients and his food processor.
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