Good question - so far, I have perused enthusiastically, but only cooked the two recipes. Weird as this may sound, I think if it weren't coffee-table-sized, I'd be more inclined to use it more and less inclined to treat it like one (a coffee table book). I still think it has a great deal of potential to teach, and I have great intentions of using this one a lot. I have to get over the fear of the splatters on the parts of the pages that can't be protected by the cookbook holder - weird hang up, I am sure. In a few months, when it's not so new, I think I will do more. That will also coincide with springtime and the likelihood of more fresh produce that I could put to use creatively, something that I think this cookbook is also going to show me how to do. I think I saw that blow torch method - he has quite a few recommended techniques that would certainly not have occurred to me. I love those off-beat techniques - one more positive feature of this book, though it is counterbalanced by the complexity of most of the recipes. I will follow up once I use it a little more!