This book is not simply about recipes - it also contains stories, lessons, trivia, and more. Prior to each recipe, a relevant story designed to encourage, inspire, or just entertain is presented. Later in the book, these stories are replaced by Potato Mountain Creative Cooking Tips. These tips are designed to help you broaden your horizons in the kitchen. Following each story or creative cooking tip, you will find brief trivia or information on the mountain after which the potato dish is named. Then you will find basic ingredients, and in most cases you will see two options . a non-frying option and a fry option. This book is not so much about recipes as it is teaching and encouraging you to find and to create harmony in cooking. Most cookbooks give you recipes. The Potato Mountain method is designed to allow you to create recipes by learning to cook outside the box. The Potato Mountain Creative Cooking methods are about learning new ways of thinking and doing. These new ways of thinking and doing will compliment things you already know and do in the kitchen. This book is about becoming aware of the different parts that make a great song - a song you can taste and a song you"ll want to sing over and over again. A song that will become a favorite and that can be arranged in many different ways to the enjoyment of all who hear it.