1.   Anna Zamora, Arlington, Texas, requested the second recipe, a Southern classic.

2.   A reader saw our columns a month or so ago about ambrosia and then the follow-up recipes for easier renditions of this Southern classic.

3.   A slightly exotic and healthier take on a Southern classic.

4.   Recipes for soul food and Southern classics like macaroni and cheese, fried corn with cream and delicate buttermilk biscuits dominate this collection.

5.   What Ms. Rosenzweig has done, of course, is reinvent the heavy Southern classic as a golden, fragile tart.