This was one of my first vegetarian cookbooks, and I have made several recipes from many different cuisines. I very much appreciated the recipes that are not really found in many other cookbooks, such as the recipes from North Africa and the Northeast African Highlands. One memorable cooking experience with this book was a dinner party a friend of mine threw. She assigned each of us a recipe from the Africa section of the book, and we had an amazing African meal, complete with injera platters. I rather like that the book lends itself more to browsing rather than quick references.