Poor Cook, which rapidly became a household classic & today is still"ed in lifestyle magazines, was originally published at the height of the 1971 recession & the rising threat of supermarket convenience food. The book is aimed at busy families with young children & contains over 300 recipes showing how to make cheaper cuts of meat into delicious dishes, do more interesting things with vegetable, pulses or pasta, etc. Instructions are straightforward &, mercifully for those of us who are sometimes intimidated by those fabulous staged pictures of wonderful concoctions, the book contains no photos!