Includes many recipes that have become modern classics.
- Profiles of and recipes by such cooking luminaries as Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Alain Ducasse, Daniel Boulud, Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Emeril Lagasse.
- Organized chronologically, the book features essays that examine the changing American food scene over the last 25 years.
- Innovative design captures the feeling of a yearbook rather than a traditional cookbook.