we're back with more "today" on a monday morning, the 24th day of october, 2011, turning into a gorgeous day here in new york. al is hoping and we're all hoping it's nice for your waking up as well. we'll get to his forecast in a moment. meanwhile out on the plaza'm matt lauer along with savannah guthrie. ann is taking a couple of days off and the aforementioned mr. roker is here as well. coming up in this half hour, very serious story, possibly some new clues in the

investigation into the disappearance of 10-month-old lisa irwin, that baby girl in kansas city. an fbi cadaver dog hit on the scent of human decomposition in the bedroom where the parents slept and we also get a tour of that home now, courtesy of peter alexander. much more on that story in just a couple of minutes. >> and then on a completely different note, the old saying goes, if something's too good to be true, it usually is, and that's going to be the case here from the grocery store to the dollar store. we'll help you recognize a so-called bargain that really isn't worth it, and the tricks retailers use to make you think you're getting a good deal. then have you ever imagined what it would be like to grow up with martha stewart, famously a perfectionist? her daughter, alexis stewart is out with a new book and dishes a little bit on her mom, for example says she grew up with a glue gun to her head. we'll talk about that, being a daughter of a domestic goddess, she's here, stuck around. >> stuck around.

glue gun! ha, ha, ha! >> totally unintentional, but thanks for noticing. >> it smells good out here. >> doesn't it really? you smell that? >> no. >> apple pie or something, cinnamon or something. >> maybe martha's here. >> your perfume? >> no. ode to apple pie. >> natalie is at the news desk with a check of the headlines. >> good morning, everyone. dozens of people are still trapped in the rubble this morning in eastern turkey, where a devastating 7.2 magnitude quake has killed hundreds there so far. villages were leveled and homes in multistory buildings were flattened near the tremor near the border. the death toll is expected to rise but a glimmer of hope this morning, at least four people have been pulled alive from the rubble so far. president obama heads west this morning on a three-day swing to campaign for re-election and promote economic initiatives. his first stop is las vegas, hard hit by the housing market collapse.

the president will promote new rules to help borrowers with low equity refinance and keep their homes. he'll also travel to california and colorado. a new step forward on the road to recovery for wounded congressman gabrielle giffords. the representative from arizona is undergoing intensive therapy in north carolina as she recovers from a gunshot wound to the head. she is not expected to make any public appearances during her time there. a new study finds that girls whose mothers were exposed to high levels of bpa while pregnant have more behavioral issues and a are more hyperactive than other girls. a pregnant woman's use of bpa in plastics appear to have little impact on boy's behavior. the latest on missing baby lisa irwin. peter alexander is here with more. you got a look inside the irwin home. >> reporter: we did get a look inside the home overnight and now been three weeks to the day since deborah bradley and jeremy

irwin say their 10mont eeld baby daughter lisa disappeared from inside the home. dramatic new developments over the course of the weekend, including a police are david that reveals an fbi cadaver dog had a positive hit on the scent of a dead body inside lisa's parent's bedroom, somewhere on the floor. we were inside post search warrant and saw police forensics everywhere, on lisa's crib, on the front door, on light switches where they were looking for fingerprints. surprisingly the sew was well kempt, still in order, lisa's child prints from the day she was born, toys, clothes neatly hanging in the closet, very much to us appeared to be a loving home. court documents reveal some of the items taken, including blankets, toys, a roll of tape and a tape dispenser, surprisingly the attorney says that is all that was taken, and the attorney for the family knows that none of the carpet was cut out from inside lisa's parents' home. we also spoke to investigators overnight, they will not discuss specifics of this case, but they insist they still have no

suspects, no solid leads, and they are still focused on trying to find where the little baby may have disappeared. >> peter sal sander in kansas city, missouri, thank you. moviegoers were in the mood to be scared this weekend. "paranormal activity 3" killed the box office competition, its $54 million take was the biggest opening ever for an october release. "real steel" was knocked down to second place and "footloose" was a step behind in third. she may be turning 125 this friday but the statue of liberty is more tech savvy than ever. starting on lady liberty's big birthday, five web cams will go online from her torch so users can check out the view 24 hours a day, seven days a week. and it is a beautiful view from up there. it is five minutes past the hour. let's go back outside to al with a check of your weather. as you know, that view up there is priceless. >> i tell you, natalie, that's one of my favorite memories of the show, doing our show from the statue of liberty, it was amazing and still is.

we've got san diego trip les. what's your name? >> hannah. >> caroline. >> and? >> zach. >> you're surrounded by two girls, oh, man! but you're doing all right, bud. let's check your weather and see what's happening and we'll show you, this is the latest on what's going on in turkey, the city of van. basically what they're looking at today, sunshine with some clouds moving in, and cloudy, rainy tonight and 43 degrees, as they try to dig out survivors for the earthquake there. closer to home we'll show you we're looking at basically a lot of wet weather making its way and warmer weather out through the plains, but then look at this, temperatures today, low 70s to the low 80s to mid 80s, by wednesday, bam! temperatures drop 33 in denver on wednesday w six inches of snow, mountains about a foot, casper 34, salt lake 50. 54 in amarillo, garden city 47. every time i

>> good morning. there is some cloud cover this morning. we should get through the morning without any rain. we could see some showers this aftern >> that's your latest weather. savannah? >> al, thanks. growing up the daughter of martha stewart wasn't all domestic bliss so says her daughter, alexis stewart. she and her former host partner jennifer koppelman hutt "whateverland" have stuck around to answer your questions. good morning. >> good morning. >> last hour we went over some of the quotes that have gotten

some attention. are you surprised that people are reading this book or reading about the book and have the perception you're complain being your childhood that it's a tell-all about your mom, martha? >> that's what people want to believe because she is incredibly talented. >> haven't you given them a little ammo here? >> taken out of context, sure. i had a friend who is my age who grew up playing topsy on saturdays, and that was going, and with his dad to the morgue and they did autopsies because that's what his dad did for a living and now he's a brilliant doctor, so if i put something like that, and you'd be twisting it into something horrible. >> did you warn your mom at all, hey this book is coming, some people might perceive it as dishing on you? >> all of the stories jennifer told them own the television show, the radio. they're funny. everyone has stories like this from their lives. everyone. >> nobody has the perfect childhood. >> nobody. >> let answer get to some of our viewer questions. the first one from mary.

"alexis, do you hope that you will have the same relationship with your daughter that you had growing up with your mother? what would you do differently?" >> being older than my mother was, was a great help because i have much more life experience to look on. do iope my daughter is close with me like i am with my mother, close. >> cheryl from arcadia, do you regret making public some of the less than flattering truths about your mother? >> i don't think they're less than flattering. they're -- >> just truths. >> like everyone else, she's a human being, so am i, so is the lady who asked that question. >> did she see it coming. did martha know this was coming? >> as i said, these are stories that have been told over and over and over again. >> we talked last hour about how the two of you lafg hosted a show together for six years are no longer friends. >> it happens. >> deidre asked why write a book together if you're not friends? >> we wrote the book while we were still working together and maintaining a good friendship. things change. when we wrote the book

everything in the book was -- >> and it doesn't invalidate the book. everything in the book -- here's the book. >> it's life lessons, listen it's life lessons. everybody's life has great moments of joy, and other moments of not such joy, and moments of awkwardness, and happiness and ease. so that's in the book and that's life. >> it's funny because just in the hours since we've talked, we've gotten tweets and people on facebook asking me about it because this is curious to them, how it is you can be friends for a long time. >> i don't know, we -- >> and suddenly not. people think gosh someone must have happened. who sbins gaited the breakup. >> it's not ins gags thing. >> one day i look at your husband, not anymore. >> that's how she looked at me. >> are you sad? >> of course i'm okay. i have great friends, a full life and terrific husband. lovely kids. i mean, would i be friends with

alexis still, of course. do i understand i'm not really her type in terms of a friend, sure so it's okay. >> so the larger question, this is an advice book above all things. >> sure. >> people are looking at you as dinse pencers of advice. what are they to make of this? >> that never happens to people, they fall out of lo of? >> no one else has ever been dumped? >> all of that is in the book. what do you do when you're dumped? >> you're saying this is real, this is life. >> we're saying we're okay. >> it's life and it can be funny and sometimes horrible things are happening to me and i think this is going to make a good story. >> amy from ohio asks jennifer, you seem like a very sweet girl. how has your life changed now that you and alexis are not as close as you used to be? >> oh my goodness. >> it's exactly the same. >> listen, do i -- >> i'm answering for her, sorry. >> would i like to e-mail alexis what's going on with the baby, sure but i know that's not who alexis is and that's okay. it's about accepting who people are, what they want and don't want and i'm okay with that. i have lunch with my girl friends once a week.

i do the radio show every day. alexis doesn't want to do it and we're okay. i still do it. >> you'd be friends with alexis if you could but alexis it doesn't go the other way. >> people are different. >> yeah. >> what are people to think of your relationship with your mother? i mean, i for example covered her court case and i know you were there almost every day. >> i was there every day actually. maybe you weren't there every day but i was. >> you were, so to your credit you were there every day. >> of course, why wouldn't i be? >> what's your relationship like? what would you want people to know about your relationship? >> we're incredibly close. and we're fwoet veboth opiniona people. while we can be together having a nice time we can also have an animated discussion/argument about something, because that's normal. if we agree on everything how boring would that be? >> let me get back to something that touched a nerve with both of you when we talked about it last hour, i said a lot of your success or public image is derivative of martha stewart. >> right. that's true. >> the book has martha shot through it, the whole whatever

thing. >> that's my life. should i not talk about it? >> if your parent is a plumber, you might go into the plumbing business. >> not only that but none of your faucets would work in your house. >> that is true. >> and there would be no prepared food in the refriger e refrigerat refrigerator. >> you have no misgivings of biting the hand that feeds. >> wait a minute not only did we not fwibite. we had a radio show for five and a half years. today is the sixth anniversary of the show. the book came out of listening to women asking for help and women who seemed to be soothed by the fact that we have issues, tons and tons of issues and we're happy to share them. >> that leads me to good final point which what is the message that you hope people will take from this book? >> that you can either be really sad about all the horrible things that have happened to you. >> because you've had a the lo of horrible things happen to you? >> that's the whole thing the book is funny, taking everything and blowing it out of proportion

as an example for how you can take your life and just laugh at it and then move on. >> okay, all right, jennifer and alexis, it's good to talk to you this morning. thanks for being here and reminder to everybody, the book is called "whateverland" and in stores now. appreciate it. coming up next, are we closer to a cure from risk factors to screening? we'll answer your questions about breast cancer. and later, when is a bargain not really a bargain? we'll help you avoid the money traps the next time you go shopping, but first these messages. [ female announcer ] when kate collects her pink yoplait lids

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the treatments, surgery, radiation, chemo, hormones, targeted treatments all have side effects, they all have collateral damage and 40,000 women still die of breast cancer and so what we really need is to focus on finding the cause of breast cancer as opposed to the cure. i think when the nfl is wearing pink, we're aware. awareness is not the issue. the issue is what causes it and how can we stop it? and how can we refocus that, whether it's looking for a virus, finding a vaccine, or what we're doing at the dr. susan love research foundation, focusing on the breast as opposed to the cancer. why does the breast get cancer and we really have no idea. >> we're going to talk about some of the research you're doing because it really is genius in how you look at the healthy woman and the breast in a moment. i want to get to a viewer question, dr. nancy, from karen in new york she writes "please report on what has been learned about breast cancer with all of the fund-raisers, are we any closer to a cure"? >> i've said many times we

should think of getting cancer to a chronic illness stage. susan is saying we have to start looking at the cure you'll take your eye off the ball. we've made foe nominal progress on other illness, childhood leukemia. we know how to find things earlier but we have to remind ourselves that your breast cancer may not just be like my breast cancer and sometimes finding things earlier does not mean you're going to necessarily cure that. some breast cancers cure themselves, some go away and some you could live with and not worry about. some unbleefblglunbelievablecy . >> dr. love tell me about the research you're doing on the actual breast on healthy women. >> we're focusing on finding every mutation and every cancer cell and that's sort of too late, like going to death row and asking them why they became criminals. we need to get to where it started, and believe it or not,

for all the molecular biology, we still don't know how many holes there are in the nipple, we don't know what the breast does when it's not making milk. what does it concentrate, what does it absorb? we're the only animal besides domesticated nonspayed dogs that get breast cancer. we don't know, because we've never focused on that part of it. we focused on the cancer as if it comes from somewhere else. >> fascinating. >> one of the cool things susan's done, we always talk about clinical trials. we put women into clinical trials once they've been diagnosed with a certain cancer. one of her big messages is we should be in trials when we're young and healthy, whether you have a family history or not, so we can follow 10, 20, 30, 40 years and try to figure out why was your life different than mine, how did you get cancer and why did i not? >> knowing the trajectory of the illness. nina in denver, colorado, on the phone with a great question, raises the issue we heard last

week. go ahead nina. >> caller: the fertility clinic i went to told me i'd be at higher risk for breast cancer if my ivf treatments failed? >> let me flip this around and get susan's opinion. i said last week because there are so many women undergoing ivf, are you at risk for cancer. i said no because there's no data to show that is the case. >> and that's true. there are a few studies, mostly very young women and they show no increased risk. but the other issue is, the older you are, when you get breast cancer, when you get pregnant, the higher your risk of getting breast cancer and what ivf allows is for much older women to get pregnant than ever before. and so we may be seeing an increase in breast cancer, not necessarily from the ivf, but from the fact that it's being given to women in their 40s and 50s. >> age is still the number one factor for getting breast

cancer. >> age, obesity, radiation exposure, being younger at your first period, older at menopause, older at first pregnancy, all of these factors. sorry, we're out of time, we have to leave it there and we'll continue our discussion throughout the rest of the month. dr. susan love and dr. nancy snyderman, thank you, as always great stuff. two real housewives of beverly hills are stopping by, right after this. .. no wonder people want to share them with the ones they love. ♪ ♪ start your own chain of sharing. ♪ send a kleenex brand share package for free today at kleenex.com. kleenex. softness worth sharing.

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>> live, local, latebreaking. this is a wbal-tv 11 news update. >> off to a fairly quiet start this monday. chance for rain showers popping up later this afternoon and into the evening. perhaps under way home, a touch of rain shower activity. otherwise, baxter of sunshine and clouds. tomorrow, in '68.

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bargain hunting. >> that's right, we all love a bargain. >> absolutely. >> retailers know that and exploit it. if it seems like you're getting an unbelievable deal, chances are not so much. from buying in bulk to dollar store finds, we'll show you why some of the bargains aren't everything they seem to be. >> i know, i always fall for the two for one. >> you realize they expired. >> remind me to check the food -- from puffy eyes to fine lines and frizzy hair, most of us waking up looking, well, like less than a million bucks so we'll tell you which products you can add to your beauty routine to keep you looking your best, and then a canadian chef who has reinvented southern american cooking, he's got some dishes he says taste just like mom's home cooking and not just in canada. coming up in "tooled's kitchen." >> wow. first al has another check of the weather. >> first of all we'll start with today, where we've got showers this evening through the western great lakes, plenty of sunshine

and heat from texas, all the way into the southeast, we got mountain snows in the western plains, windy conditions in northern california. moving into tomorrow, cooler air starts to make its way into the rockies, with mountain snows there, sunshine and mild in the pacific northwest, mild weather through the southeast on into the mid mississippi river valley and showers around the centr >> good morning. there is some fog start today. the chance for a few rain showers this afternoon. >> and that's your latest weather. >> all right, al, thank you. coming up next, a good deal

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[ beatboxing ] this morning on "today's consumer" bargain hunting. we all want to save a few bucks but buying in bulk at dollar store finds aren't always the good deals they seem to be. personal finance expert varnoush is here. >> good morning, al. >> the big box stores, we think okay, we buy in bulk we save

money. not necessarily. >> not necessarily. buying in bulk in general can save a family a lot of money over the course of a year but only if it makes sense. dry perishables, household supplies that don't have expiration dates necessarily, not going to expire quickly, those are really the best bets because we do waste a lot of the bulk purchases that are fruit, vegetables, meat, things like that. >> odds are, unless you package them individually and freeze them. >> that's a great tip. freezing, investing in a good freezer is smart if you like to buy in bulk during the year. >> the one i always see, buy one get one free. >> check this out. you and i are almost conditioned to see the word "free" and assume there's no downside. marketers know this. whether they're giving us a handout free no strings attached or buy one get one free deal, we will always end up spending more than we planned to. >> what's the problem, though, with buy one get one free?

>> sometimes it's not just buy one get one free, sometimes it's buy three, get one free. a lot of the coupons were for multiple deals, and we fell for them, buying more than we really need. >> you also say that it's like in real estate, location, location, location. >> yes. >> beginning and end of the aisle is where they like to put stuff. >> the end cap displays on aisles are typically where the grocery store manager likes to put the inventory he wants to get rid of. a lot of times the items are on sale, but we assume always the item will be on sale. the only way you can find out, get the item, find it in its regular location in the grocery store and see if there's a sale or discount or do a price check before you assume it's on sale. >> what about when you see if a product says $9.99, we always assume that, we see this as $9. >> it's just $9. it's our head that's playing the trick on us. when we read digits we read from left to right so that first number has more weight than the other digits in that figure.

so $9.99 is $9. $8.99 is $8. >> ten for ten. >> right, you don't have to buy all ten. that's the trick. that's the trip up. >> they just want to you buy ten. >> they want to you buy as many as possible because they want to move that inventory, but chances are you can probably buy one and get that discounted price. >> so you've loaded up your car, on your way home, stop at a restaurant, look at the menu and they leave off the dollar sign. >> that's on purpose. business schools, restaurant management schools around the country are teaching this to their students that when you create menus, particularly at high-end restaurants, you want to leave off the price tag because you want the customer to focus on the food as opposed to the price and a study shows at cornell university that when diners go to an upscale restaurant where there are dollar signs, they end up spending less. so just be wary of that, take your calculator. >> speaking of dollars, dollar stores you say there's some problems with some of those.

>> sometimes. "consumer reports" has done a lot of research on dollar stores. you want to stay away sometimes from products that pose health or safety risks. for example, batteries at the dollar store, a lot of times are generic brand, made with carbon zinc as opposed to lithium. lithium is a better standard, a better grade product and sometimes those carbon zinc batteries can leak. so you want to read the ingredients there. also some vitamins, health supplements have been found to have expiration dates that are overdue or they don't have proper labeling so these items you want to double check. >> and then a lot of us go looking on the web for deals and a lot of websites have the daily deal. >> right. that's all about adrenalin. we buy these daily deals on impulse. you really want to read the fine print especially for travel deals because they might have expiration dates or blackout dates and i almost fell for this, if you see a deal for a fitness club or a salon, sometimes you have to be a first time customer in order to get the deal.

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♪ this morning on "today's beauty," waking up beautiful every day. wouldn't that be nice? "good housekeeping" magazine says you can get up gorgeous following simple steps the night before. rosemary el sis the editor in chief. good morning. >> good morning. >> really we can go to bed and wake up and look like you've been well rested? >> you can. there's a new column called "seven years younger" and we look at science based strategies that help. little things that can make big results. we don't want to make your life crazy. >> little products as well that make a big impact. first one i guess you can have a

little caffeine at night before you go to bed. >> on your eyes. a lot of women wake up with puffy eyes. first of all look at the position you're sleeping in. if you're sleeping flat fluid will collect around your eyes. if you elevate your head the fluid will drain off. you can use a product that has caffeine like this, first aid beauty detox, a roller, you roll it around your eyes. the caffeine constricts your blood vessels. >> reduces puffiness, we love that. next dry skin especially this time of year a real problem, the itchy skin as well as doesn't look good so you've got a great product. >> this is eucerin. a lot of women put cream on their hands which is great but also remember your heels, elbows, knees. it has lactic acid in it, gentle ex-foalant and a rich emollient as well. >> one recommended by dermatologists as well. >> yes. >> fine lines, a lot of us know

they creep up after a certain amount of time living on this earth, and you found a product that you say will help ease some of the fine lines around the eyes? >> the only thing that will ease fine lines is plumping them and the only thing that plumps is water. you want something that will pull water from the air. you want to look for something with hyalauronic acid. this pulls moisture from the air and plumps up the wrinkles so you look fresher. >> i like the sound of that. the glow we get older and get ashy, dull skin, start to lose the natural glow. this is something you can do to help bring that back. >> yes, you want to exfoliate gentry, getting the dead skin cells lying on the stotop of yo skin off. at night you're cleaning that off and whatever treatment you use really helps your skin and sinks in more. this is a terrific product from

olay regenerist, night resurfacing elixir for your face. for your body this product from st. ives has alpha hydroxyroot acids, gentle exfolients, five bucks. >> well worth the price tag. hair can show your age and you could show you're not well rested and tends to be a frizzy mess and you have great pillows is a good way to xwad that. >> a lot of what causes frizz is the friction all night long of your hair rubbing against a cotton pillow case. if you use a satin pillow case, less friction equals less frizz. >> switch the pillow case to satin. your teeth, do you want the bright white smile? boost the glow of your teeth as well. >> this is a new product we tested in the good housekeeping research could co listengate, claims to brighten your teeth one shade in a week. we tested it on 20 women over 35, we had them use this and

another 20 women use a leading whitening toothpaste. two of the women saw it a whole stage. almost everyone liked it and several saw improvement not that great, but still considerable. what it's great for, if you use a serious tooth whitener this is good for the periods in between when you want to keep the whiteness on your teeth. >> coffee or wine drinker. >> we all stain our teeth. >> if you have a dez sert before you go to bed this will help you wake up looking more radiant and well rested. >> three ingredients, so easy and pretty. grapefru grapefruit, full of vitamin c, fights wrinkles from the inside out, walnuts nourish your skin and cinnamon, and anti-inflammatory, good for everything. you should sprinkle cinnamon on whatever you like it on. i put it on my cinnamon and coffee. you do the slices, you warm up the walnuts in my microwave for

about 45 seconds, pinch of salt and sprinkle on cinnamon and you're done. voila. >> perfect. low cal at that. rosemary ellis thanks very much. coming up next a new taste on old-fashioned southern cooking with a chef from canada. go figure. first this is "today" on nbc.

this morning in "today's kitchen" reinventing southern kitchen step by step. the new cookbook is called "a new turn in the south." hugh, good to meet you >> good to see you. >> why did you take on southern american cooking? >> it's where i've lived for a really long time, been there about, opened my first restaurant 12 years ago and longer. >> you've got an accent. i still say out and house but i have a y'all in there, too.

weird. >> you have an interesting appetizer. you like to mix things up. >> i love things to be four ingredients long for simple snacking. this is simple, just beautiful grapefruit coming into season now, beautiful marinated white anchovies and a little bit of fresh ground pepper, by fan. the other stuff in the pantry is usually stale if you buy it preground, and olive oil. this is simple. the acidity will match up with the puckeriness of the anchovies. >> a dish you cook with cane vinegar. i've never heard of. >> it's a filipino vinegar made from sugar cane. it is versatile and has great flavor. you can definitely use a less expensive sherry vinegar, just not a balsamic. no reason to waste expensive vinegar on this. we want to look for color on these, really getting beautiful. >> skin on chicken thighs. >> you can take the skin off if you want.

>> why do that? come on! >> deglaze with a little bit of vinegar and let that come down. >> i like it in the book, an ode to vinegar. >> i love vinegar. it provides puckeriness, provides a bounce in your mouth and that's really good. >> a little bounce in your mouth. >> going to add beautiful pearl onions to braze down there, too, garlic and smoked paprika and paprika i love, too, adds versatility and this is one of the stovetop braises. easy to do. we add the chicken stock and cover it up, braise that for 15, 20 minutes and i want to make it into a beautiful meal. we'll add really nice spinach, wintry things now. we're going to add the spinach, tear that a little bit. i've got beautiful segments of orange. they came from us segments beautifully. i want the spinach to wilt,

going to add mint. mint tends to brew uise a lot s tear it so it tends not to bruise. if you cover that up it will wilt and a great dish. the cane vinegar gets sweet and luscious and fun. really straightforward. >> i'll take this in the back with us. what do we have back here? >> we're going to build a little carrot salad, big fan of carrots and beets. these are the things my kids eat all the time. my kids are great vegetable eaters so i've got the roasted really simple >> brings out the sugar and the sweetness. >> really, and that's what cooking is, bringing out inherent sugars in things, in proteins or vegetables or whatever it may be. got a number of different types of beets here. >> um-hum. >> and you know i'm a big fan of parsley leaves. >> hey. >> hi. smells so good. >> all together is that feta? >> that is beautiful french sheep's milk feta and a simple

cumin vinaigrette. >> for dessert? >> simple figure tartlets and as the fall season and what's around right now. >> fantastic. hugh acheson, looks terrific. >> thanks for having me. i'm not an artist. >> you're a doodler. >> good at it. >> hugh, thank you so much. coming up creative costume ideas from bobby thomas opinion. >> and sara bareilles live in concert. time to eat.