I don't care much for cookbooks. I'm not a recipe-follower. BUT, the amount of personality, of joy, of purse SASS in this thing made me fall in love with it! Hollis translates his on-screen persona to the page exceedingly well. The stories are a mix of lovely and funny. I even picked out a few to try! And thank goodness there's a "worst of" section, so we can relive those disasters!