I should have respected a few other reviewers and not purchase this book. After I got it, with "Cooking" by the same author, I returned it because it was "too much." The "Cooking" book by the same author was okay, but if you add this book with "Cooking," it is overkill. "Cooking" by itself is good unless you are "big" into sauces. I was not impressed, and I am a "good" cook but not with a lot of time that "Sauces" required to get the sauces right.