This edition is the complete unabridged hardbound version in full color in large page format. This International cookbook grew over time and now is a collective of outstanding work of many people who love to cook. The recipes presented in this book are mostly family recipes but some great recipes come from many great chefs and friends as well. This cookbook is intended for all cooks: beginners to accomplished cooks. A worthwhile cookbook is one you pull off the shelf to read for entertainment, for great recipes or to find inspiration for tonightÕs menu. It should be diverse, informative, authoritative, help you shop for ingredients, be indexed well, have cross references, serve as a reference, be frugal at times, extravagant at times, help save both money and time, have both easy to prepare recipes as well as fancier affair, and explain the hows and whys. If it does these things well, it deserves space on your bookshelf.