''This isn't just a cookbook; it's a baking bible. Here is all the basic information that so many baking books leave out; photographs of equipment; the ground rules for getting it right - whether it's puff pastry, a cupcake or a scone; kitchen maintenance know-how; a glossary of terms...and much more. Team all that with a compendium of more than 300 recipes including cookies, cakes, slices, muffins, breads, pastries, tartlets and pies from the simple to the spectacular, and the result is an everyday cookbook that will be dipped into again and again.''