Abby Stone

Leaf through Ludo Lefebvre’s new cookbook, LudoBites: Recipes And Stories From The Pop-Up Restaurants of Ludo Lefebvre, and you’ll understand why the reservations for the entire run of the last incarnation of LudoBites, his pop-up restaurant in Los Angeles, sold out in under a minute: his delight in the sensual pleasure of food is evident in the description of every dish. (Remember his charming kitchen tour, too?

While we love organic grocery stores, it can be very pricey to shop at such places (we have friends who jokingly refer to Whole Foods as Whole Paycheck). So we were very intrigued when Danny Seo — who has become such a popular, helpful resource for economical, eco-friendly, and stylish living — hinted to us that he’d found ways we hadn’t even considered to save at these stores.