There are lots of lovely recipes in this book, and I'm sure all the contributors are proud of their offerings. However, many are just repetitions. Who needs 11 recipes for apple butter, for instance? It appears to be a thick book, but in reality, it could be a third thinner with no discernable loss in content or quality. It is tedious, to say the least. On the plus side, the spiral binding makes it quite user-friendly, allowing it to lie flat, and remain open.