I really love how this is laid out into different origins of recipes, like "deep origins," "the basics," "taste transitions," "diverse approaches," and "southern classics." I think this is a really good way to spread out these different types of recipes that all have rice in them but are very very different recipes. I didn't see a single picture in this cookbook and that makes me really sad, because I haven't heard of a lot of these recipes and I always like to see a picture of it to get a feeling of what they're supposed to look like when I make the recipe at home.