The Magazine's All-Food Issue: The whole glossy, devoted to food! We've already rounded it up.

Misunderstood Couscous: Couscous is both an ingredient and a dish using that ingredient. What can you make with couscous besides couscous? Here, it's sweetened and sprinkled with rosewater.

Too Bad It Was Yom Kippur: Ferrán Adrià of El Bulli shopped in Chinatown with Allen Salkin and cooked him a meal: no fancy lab equipment, just stuff like scrambled eggs with burrata and shrimp with black pepper.

Soba and Zin: Hearty, earthy soba noodles with mushrooms and chicken livers pair perfectly with spicy zinfandel.

In Atlantic City, a Resort Without Gambling: At The Chelsea, you'll find Monopoly, but no slot machines. Also: a poolside bar and the restaurant Chelsea Prime, Stephen Starr of Morimoto and Buddakan's Atlantic City debut.

Red Chard, Potato, and White Bean Ragout: A recipe for a comforting and healthy stew.

New York on the Cheap: Suggestions include filling up on free pickles at Katz's, the classic New York brunch of dim sum at Pacificana in Brooklyn’s Chinatown, and Pommes Frites, "whose $4.50 cones of French fries have been sustaining New York University students since 1997."

Did You Know Cocktails Are In?: "Mixologists are the new D.J.’s of New York night life."

Lonely Planet or Frommer’s? The lowdown on six big New York guidebooks.

Travel: What some notable New Yorkers are looking forward to this fall; 36 hours in New York City; exclusive resorts get more exclusive; Prospect Heights is a new hipster haven.