Chef Offers Fast, Easy Meals with a Catch: ; Cookbook Bucks Trend of Fussy Books with Items in Every Cook's Pantry

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LOS ANGELES - In revolutionary France, the newspaper Le Monde offered a reward for anyone who invented a method of preserving food for the hungry and impatient armies. If they were to offer a reward today for the person who figured out what to do with all those cans and jars the inventors came up with, Nancy Silverton would surely win it.

In her seventh cookbook, "A Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals With Ingredients From Jars, Cans, Bags and Boxes," Silverton offers a primer for people with little time but a large pantry. It's a radical change of pace for Silverton, whose previous books were filled with recipes that required three-day-long dough risings or overnight resting time. But it's one that's more reflective of the pace of most people's lives - and maybe even Silverton's own. Between working the pizza station at Pizzeria Mozza most nights and getting ready to open Osteria Mozza this summer, restaurateur Silverton probably is finding her can opener pretty useful these days.

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Chef Offers Fast, Easy Meals with a Catch: ; Cookbook Bucks Trend of Fussy Books with Items in Every Cook's Pantry

Silverton's smart cookbook contains page after page of mostly wonderful, often ingenious recipes. They're easy and fast - most clock in at abou...

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