This cookbook is set up similair to vol. I with all the guidelines, suggestions, and glossary BUT, the index is useless! I have looked up at least 25 different recipies and none of them were on the page they were supposed to be. (Not even close. Completely different subjects i.e. the page listed for mushroom appitizers showed a beef stew!) Spending a leisurely hour one night I decided to hunt down the reciepies I wanted from the index by flipping thru the appropriate chapter and STILL could not find the recipies I was looking for. I retrospect it looks like the index from Vol. I was copied into Vol II.....nothing works! I have had the Vol II for 2 months and still have made the French bread and nothing else. I have reverted back to Vol I because I can actually find what I need. No matter how great Julias' recipies are if you can not find them they are useless.