Green tomatoes. Photo: pink_fish13, Flickr.

• Green tomatoes can become a delicious late-summer soup.
• A look at the food and fine dining of Portland, Maine, as it -- brace yourself -- gears up for frost and winter.
• At the living museum Strawbery Banke in New Hampshire, Rosh Hashana is celebrated 1919-style.
• French Languedoc wines have improved greatly over the last 25 years.
• Michael Pollan writes an op-ed piece about eating and U.S. health care.
• Food editor and developer of products like Cran-Apple juice Sylvia Schur passes away at the age of 92.
• Recipe Redux goes back in time and whips up a Huguenot Torte from 1965.
• The foods that wowed when noted chefs David Kinch, Alexandre Gauthier, Pascal Barbot and Michel Bras got cookin' on Sept. 14.
• The Minimalist makes Thai-style crab cakes.
• The classic tourist spot Tavern on the Green files for bankruptcy -- a look into why it fell.
• Restaurants: Gus & Gabriel Gastropub "fails to achieve even its low aims," Stumptown Coffee Roasters whips up exceptional espresso and Queens' M & T Restaurant offers elegant simplicity and great eats.
• Food Stuff finds purr-worthy knives, a new food processor and apple cake.
• New York's openings and closings and dining calendar.

• There's nothing like a good dumpling to warm you up in winter. Here are a few to try: Spinach and Ricotta Dumplings With Roasted Garlic Cream, Austrian Bacon and Chive Bread Dumplings and Chicken and Parsley Dumplings.
  
• Portland's Stumptown coffee is heading east, to open a roasting facility in Brooklyn.
• We are firmly in the midst of citrus season and lemons are the star attraction in many a grocery store display.
• Make yourself a more virtuous steak sandwich by using lean beef and omitting the cheese.
• Need help picking out a wine? Check out those tech sheets on the counter.
• Wine classes, apple juice for memory and a contest from Green and Black's chocolate are all In the Mix this week.
• Want a foreign experience without leaving home? Check out this recipe for Moroccan Spinach and Garbanzo Soup.
  
• For a quick weeknight dinner, spice up a grocery store tub of Alfredo Sauce with extra veggies and a couple chicken sausages.

I went to graduate school in Philadelphia, and lived only a few blocks from the famed La Colombe Torrefaction. I was a student, it was far too hip for me - but I did stop in once or twice for a croissant and what Food & Wine Magazine calls their "silky cappuccino," naming the caffeinated hotspot the top U.S. coffee "bar."

So coffee is served at bars, not shops, now? The magazine also picks Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco, Ninth Street Espresso in the East Village, New York; Aloha Island in Beverly Hills and Ruta Maya in Austin. Naturally I think they're ignoring some legendary spots here in Portland (hello, aren't we coffeeville?), like Stumptown Coffee and Ristretto Roasters.

As I've only quaffed java at one of their top five spots, though, I can hardly be a judge. What do you all think: are they missing anyplace else that's truly paradise in a French Press?