All branches of the US Military use this standardized set of recipes. This is the 2003 edition. The full collection is 1691 pages. This book is the first 1094 pages of the full 1600 page collection. For reasons related to the maximum size of a book, the collection has been split into two books. The front 77 pages are repeated in each volume because the contain the instructions that are common to all recipes. This allows the books to be used independently. The editor recommends that you use flags to mark your favorite recipes. The recipes are fully scalable up or down and the instructions make the calculations as easy as one of the many pie recipes.