This cookbook is presented to us by Pierre Blot, Professor of Gastronomy and Founder of the New York Cooking Academy. It contains a wide variety of cooking recipes ranging from soups, meat dishes, vegetables, starches and even pastries. Blots aim is not to offer haute cuisine but to "to enable every housekeeper and professional cook, no matter how inexperienced they may be, to prepare any kind of food in the best and most wholesome way, with economy, celerity, and taste."