Our conscientious recipe collector lives on a shoestring in New York's fashionable Upper East Side. During the financial crisis she watches her well-heeled neighbors struggle to entertain and to create dinners in the style to which they are accustomed. Upscale but not uptight, Parsley Cresswell takes to her compact kitchen and cooks her way through the recession, inspired by the high standards that have spoiled her, and the expensive tastes she has...