cocktail-sauce

If you're eating from the new Crossroads cookbook by acclaimed chef Tal Ronnen, you're eating some of the best, most inventive, freshest and satisfying vegan food on the planet. Naturally tender and briny hearts of palm (with a hole poked through, of course) make for startlingly realistic "calamari," but honestly you won't miss the shellfish…

If there was ever an essential condiment for fresh, simple seafood, it would be cocktail sauce. This deft mixture of ketchup, chili sauce, horseradish and lemon juice is the classic accompaniment to fresh or fried shrimp, but is delicious on everything you'd find on the shellfish tower. Tailor the horseradish and hot sauce to your heat…

One evening Trudy and Pete Campbell join Trudy's well-to-do parents, Tom and Jeannie Vogel, at a Manhattan restaurant for dinner. They begin with appetizers. When Trudy, every ounce Daddy's little girl, announces she has "great news," her mother, delightfully surprised, answers, "Already?" It's not what she thinks. Trudy isn't pregnant; she and Pete have found…