The Quick Cook is a boon to aspiring cooks who want to produce a good meal in a relatively short time. The thirty menus are explained with step-by-step instructions how to overlap cooking dishes so that each menu is finished within the hour. There are valuable hints and tips on preparation which cuts out the drudgery in the kitchen. The main menus apart, there are sumptuous breakfast and dessert recipes and none of them are too complicated to follow. The Quick Cook is a wonderful mix of recipes from different regions and a delightful compilation of the old and the new.