content: I am a long time fan of Mr. Slater and have purchased three of his books, this being the third. They all are wonderful. They assume that the reader knows a whisk from a wine opener and has at least a passing interest in making and eating great food. The health-food craze, the move toward low-fat, low-salt, low-this or low-that (and hence no fun) is acknowledged but not adhered to. Slater's emphasis is on good food. If that means adding a walnut sized knob of butter or eating a somewhat large amount of bacon, then so be it. My one objection, and it's really my own fault (He is from England, after all), is that the version I purchased is the English edition, and all of the measurements are in the metric system. Maddening but not a disaster. I also highly recommend "Appetite", a similar book...all in all a great book.