I felt that I should cook my way through this book before posting a review and that is just what I've done.

The recipes are laid out in meal format and they were very easy to follow - each meal consists of a starter or salad, an entree and a dessert. It's hard to go wrong - Martha Stewart spells it our for you. First do this, then do that and so on - if the directions are followed, all components of a rather nice meal are ready at the same time. Each meal was good - some better than others. It was interesting to take the approach of cooking everything in a book and we tried things we might never have otherwise.

This is a worthwhile cookbook to own - many of the meals are memorable and will be cooked by this reader over and over again. ( )