The grit of industrial cities is a familiar ingredient in movies, paintings, photographs and other art forms.

The show is full of the familiar ingredients of scary movies and backstage musicals.

Her accomplishment is also something of a surprise, since the book is a bouillabaisse of familiar ingredients.

In the process she incorporates familiar ingredients of successful mainstream fiction.

With this combination, Ms. Rosenzweig coaxes new flavors from familiar ingredients.

The current menu falls squarely in the mainstream, with all the trendy Asian touches and newly familiar ingredients.

But there is a new and much less familiar ingredient here.

Main courses also add new layers to familiar ingredients.

The menu, like the restaurant, is small, but it works some intriguing variations on familiar ingredients.

In its concerns with parental authority, teen-age insecurities and the like, "Family Ties" had all the familiar ingredients.