Men should be able to prepare some basic meals either for their family or for themselves. My father - God rest his soul - could not boil water burning it. He could make almost anything out of sheet metal but could not make any kind of food. Does this sound like a man you know? "Men, with the recipes in the cookbook, with relatively little effort you will be able to prepare some basic meals and snacks for yourself, for your family, for your buddies, or at least to impress a date. There's nothing really fancy in here - just good food that everybody likes." Ladies, if you use it, we won't tell anybody.