The Betty Crocker Classic Cookbook is informative and creative. There is a great deal of informative interesting combinations and recipes. Overall I would recommend it to friends, however I was dissapointed in the lack of flair some of the recipes had. I am a gourmet so maybe I am on the minority side of opinions here but cooking is an artform, and everything in this book was catered more towards traditional, common, boring tastes. Nearly everything was made up of seafood, pork, beef, chicken, turkey. That is fine and dandy, however, the combinations were expected, boring, simple. ...review »