To make a tilde on a Mac: use alt-n and then type n.

Not sure what it is on PC, but you can use HTML to achieve:

ñ for lowercase ñ
Ñ for uppercase Ñ

Hyphenated as an adjective: Many brunch spots offer prix-fixe menus.

Etymology: Shoo-in on etymonline.com

Examples
After some reworking, the dish now has fewer calories.
After removing half the butter, the dish has less fat.

Note the order. Wine comes first. Yes, we’re used to food and wine, thanks to the magazine of that name.

Also: Let’s just dispose of the ampersand in there. Just make it an and.

Creating the tilde
On Mac: option-n + n creates an ñ character
HTML: ñ or ñ

No: She passed the bag of Cheetos to Chef Boulud.
Yes: She passed the bag of Cheetos to Boulud.
Yes: Daniel Boulud, the celebrated French chef, enjoys eating Cheetos at the end of the night.
Yes: Jane Doe works as a sous chef at Bar Boulud, where one of her duties is preparing chef-owner Daniel Boulud’s nightly Cheetos snack.

We use three sizes/formats 95 percent of the time (please do not deviate from them):

500px HORIZONTALLY ORIENTED run the full width of the entry. Do not use anything larger than 500px, as it will break the layout. Keep them as shallow as possible, avoiding heights of more than 375px. (If you’re starting with a standard image size produced by most cameras, reducing an image size proportionally to 500px wide should scale the height to 375px automatically. But any crops you can do to decrease the height are appreciated.)

250px HORIZONTALLY ORIENTED images are floated to the right of the entry. (More on how to do this later.)

200px HORIZONTALLY or VERTICALLY ORIENTED pix are also floated right within the entry.

Use your judgment as to whether you want to do 250px or 200px for horizontally oriented images. We generally prefer 200px images unless it’s difficult to “read” what’s going on in the image at 200px width.

Other sizes exist but are used in special situations (This applies mostly to queue editors):

150px-WIDE BOOK COVERS are used for books and are floated right.

40px SQUARE are used for our “Quick Bites” entries and are floated left.

File Size

Optimize your images for the web before uploading them. To keep load times short on our pages, we shoot for images of no more than 50k in size. If you have Photoshop, use the Save for Web & Devices option to optimize your image.

If you don’t have Photoshop, there are a couple of web-based options: Picnik.com and Snipshot.com

Image File Names

Please use the following convention: YYYYMMDDimagename.jpg or YYYYMMDDimagename.gif or YYYYMMDDimagename.png

Example: 20090204pizzaslice.jpg

That is to say quality is not an adjective but a noun.

If you’re using quality to mean stupendous, use high-quality.