Budgeting Ingredients, Not Imagination: Two Food Writers Face Off With $50 to Feed Six
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                            March 24, 2009
                        
                        Budgeting Ingredients, Not Imagination
                        Julia Moskin and Kim Severson were set the challenge of making dueling dinners for six for $50 — about the least one can spend on dinner for two in a Manhattan restaurant. Julia's grand total: $38.04; Kim's grand
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                            Zahra Sethna/The New York Times
                        
                    
                