West provides recipes from the Polish cuisine in menus for 4 or 8 persons based on the seasons. There is some variety in the menus, but the arrangement by menu makes it more difficult to locate that one recipe you are seeking because it is not categorized by appetizer, salad, breads, main courses, desserts, etc. While it is a good cookbook, it is not as comprehensive as Robert Strydel's Polish Heritage Cookery. The blurbs on the heritage of the recipes are also shorter or non-existent in West's cookbook, making it less interesting than others. It's still a good cookbook if you are interested only in the recipes themselves and don't mind using the index at the back of the volume to locate the one you are seeking. ( )