The receipes are very good. Taste like my grandma's cooking. Easy to find items in the store non of those special items that you don't know what they are. My mom makes a great sweet potatoe pie but she does not measure the ingred. The sweet potatoe pie recipe in this book takes the guessing out of the receipe and my mom uses it now because it's so much easier than dumping a little of this and that until you get it right.:)