This books' recipes are well organized. For example, they give you basic sautee chicken recipes and ask you to refer to sauce A, B, and C to complete the dish. So you can mix and match to your own tastes.However, this book is not very well written. The section on artichokes for example, is completely confusing. One major minus to this book is that its instructions are in paragraph format, making following them almost impossible. The instructions would be better if they are shown step-by-step.