Takeout foods make a fast and elegant meal after a busy workday.

Silverton's goal is to bring lapsed home cooks back into the kitchen to make fast meals with "love and care."

Food is served quickly, and the backless benches, comfortable enough for a fast meal, don't encourage lingering.

It could be fashioned into high-rising, fluffy loaves or simply fried for a fast meal.

Eat cheap: Supermarket rotisserie chicken makes a fast meal, but convenience costs: about $7 for the average bird.

What I had hoped for was a fast meal and then snooze time.

And the name is said to refer to people stamping their feet and then going with the fast to prepare meal.

They checked into a modest hotel suite and showered and ate a fast hot meal.

And it makes for a fast meal.

On one such rushed occasion I bought some shiitake mushrooms in the market and built a fast meal around them.