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As the economy has gotten tighter, restaurants have gotten a whole lot friendlier and more solicitous, all in the hopes of getting and keeping your business. - The show The Biggest Loser showcases the problem that most Americans don't know how to cook for themselves.
- The peanut butter salmonella scare has led people to wonder about the safety of nearly everything they put in their mouths.
- Frank Bruni reviews the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel and finds that it's heavy on atmosphere and light on dependably delicious dishes.
- After experiencing a couple bad years, Eric Asimov declares that the barolo is back to its former glory.
- For inexpensive Indian food in Manhattan, you can't go wrong at Dhaba.
- Andrew Carmellini is teaming up with Robert De Niro to take over the restaurant in the Greenwich Hotel.
- Mark Bittman takes a standard cracker recipe and tarts it up with cheese, butter and cream for a richer result.
- Most recipes for braised rabbit require lots of fat to keep the lean meat moist. Melissa Clark has figured out a way to keep the meat tender without making it heavy.
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Restaurants During Recession and Home Cooking - The NY Times in 60 Seconds
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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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