The blue cheese pizzas alone are worth the purchase price. The black bean soup recipe is the best I have ever found - better than any I have been served in a restaurant. Also the best corn fritter recipe, and there are a lot of those. Goat cheese and fig tart is genius. Roasted beets with horseradish cream. And the carrot salad is bright, lemony, peanutty treasure, far removed from that mayonnaise-raisin mess we were served growing up. I could go on.... When I got married, I thought "I want to eat food I really love while I celebrate with those I love".... so most of the food we served we prepared from this cookbook.