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Fare Exchange: Seeking your best meals for company or for just one

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Welcome to today’s foodie conversation. As we sit down together, may I pull you into an ongoing conversation around a certain table and ask you to join in? The topics are numerous and call for your input. Choose one and join in.

› Simple meals for company: Have you served or been served a meal with no culinary bells or whistles, just one serving vessel and something hearty? Did it satisfy you in more than one way? Should we do this more often, if it highlights the diners not the food?

› Oneness: When it’s just you and you are no cook, what is your formula for a restorative meal?

› Food as medicine: Have you been helped or even healed of any malady by the help of a good food, instead of popping a pill? One reader recommended raisins soaked in gin and said it helped a particular ache. Tell us more.

› Vegetables: If you have the good sense to fill your meals with vegetables, how do you do it, and which veggies work best for you?