This week it's a tragic story from the Napa Valley. Robert Mondavi built a family empire on innovation, evangelical salesmanship and, at times, stunning quality. Now it's gone, a victim of family betrayal and corporate takeovers.Wall Street Journalreporter Julia Flynn Siler tells the story in her bookThe House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty. Then Lynne shares her recipe forPan-Grilled Porterhouse with Red Wine Glaze, the steak she made to go with her first bottle of Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon. The year was 1974. The wine was a 1969.

It's a kinder and gentler story for the Sterns. They're tucking into old-fashioned comfort food at Kumback Lunch in Perry, a cozy 1926-era eatery on Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip.

We have an origins check on that dorm room mainstay, the Ramen Noodle Cup, from David Rosengarten, author of The Rosengarten Report.

For an interpretation of an epicurean's take on happiness we turn to philosopher and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think is Right is Wrong.

Los Angeles Times writer Charles Perry has the scoop on bitters and a Prom Dress, the latest thing in the $20 cocktail genre.

Susan Hassler, editor-in-chief of the science and technology online magazine IEEE Spectrum, decided to reach out to science and techno geeks who cook. Find out what happened.

Lynne reports on her experiment with a $26 can of San Marzano tomatoes, and the phone lines will be open for your calls.