This cookbook makes me actually want to cook stuff! Every recipe has a finished-product photo plus a couple along-the-way photos, too. I find that so extremely helpful. About half the recipes are beyond me right now, but the other half give me hope. The first few pages describe the basic ingredients to keep in a kitchen. There are 7 recipe chapters, divided in the usual way: Soups, Appetizers, Salads, Side Dishes, Light Lunches, Suppers, and Special Occasions (more complicated or time consuming dishes). No desserts to speak of, but plenty of yummy sounding and looking things to try. Just because it's vegetarian doesn't mean it tries to be strictly healthy, either. Several recipes call for frying veggies in a pot of oil. ( )