Bon Appetit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook Review

After receiving the Bon Appetit Cookbook as a Christmas present two years ago, I've been using it at least once a week.  It is the one cookbook that I absolutely rave about and recommend to everyone I know.  When I discovered that they also published a Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook, I decided to buy several of them--one for me and the rest to give to a few family/friends as Christmas presents.  I've had my copy for a couple of weeks now and I'm happy with it.

Bon Appetit Fast Easy Fresh is a cookbook that contains 1,100 recipes that include starters, soups/stews, salads, sandwiches, pizza, pasta/rice, meat entrees, seafood dishes, starch sides, veggies, desserts, breakfasts, and drinks.  You'll be hard-pressed to find a recipe in the bunch that contains more than 10 ingredients and more than a handful of preparation and cooking steps.  The recipes aren't complicated which, obviously, makes them suited for a cookbook that describes itself as "fast, easy, and fresh".  I'd like to see them list out the preparation and cooking steps in numbers or bullets to make them easier to refer to as you work, but I imagine that would require more space and not allow Bon Appetit to include so many recipes in this book.

I think this would be a great gift for a new homeowner or someone who is just starting to experiment with cooking in the kitchen.  It won't *wow* the more accomplished cooks that you know, but it may possibly inspire them to try new flavor combinations in their dishes... as it has for me.  Recommended!