This isn't the place to come for a long and intimate dinner, but it's a superb option for an excellent and (usually) speedy meal of stir-fries and noodles.

For the speedy meal in the accompanying recipes, which should be ready in 20 minutes, the couscous is served in a salad at room temperature.

In keeping with Ms. Ray's signature theme of speedy meals (her most popular show is "30 Minute Meals") the magazine will promote cooking and travel that are "quick, easy and efficient," Ms. Morgan said.

After a speedy meal of eggs and toast, we climbed into Grampy's tiny wooden rowboat.

Canned tomatoes in several guises always provide the basis of a very speedy meal: pasta and tomato sauce.

Breakfast is the speediest, least significant meal of the day.

It is impossible to predict whether you will have the speediest meal of your life or the slowest.