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THE AUTHOR OF the cookbook Downtime first embarked on the project when she actually had precious little of it. Nadine Levy Redzepi was in charge of the reservations department of her chef husband René’s restaurant Noma, in Copenhagen, during the years it held the top spot on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, a time when the team had to get used to saying no to the majority of people from around the globe who wanted to dine there. In 2010, the first year Noma ranked No. 1, the couple had a 2-year-old daughter, Arwen, and another child on the way. Nadine had been dreaming of putting together a family cookbook but couldn’t…