This books offers a lot of interesting recipes. It gives wide variety of dishes, not simply one or two in each catagory. The recipes are very simple to make and taste delicious. Members of my family who aren't vegetarian liked them too. The only problem with this book is that the recipes tend to serve a large amount of people. If you are a single vegan, or the only one in you house, try to find a book where the recipe size is only for a few people. The recipes where great, but after having some of them for leftovers the entire week, you just don't appreciate them.