What is the best way to store a few fields?

The best way would be to use the built-in Options API to add info to the wp_options table.

To add the option:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_option

To read the option value:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_option

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