500 new recipes for contemporary dishes. Modern, quick, easy, international: The ultimate cookbook for today's kitchen. It can confidently be described as the best of all cookbooks: "Die gute Küche," published around ten years ago, has become the most successful non-fiction book of the last fifty years. Can such a cookbook have a sequel? Yes, the authors, professional chef Ewald Plachutta and gourmet journalist Christoph Wagner, have answered and set to work. Much has changed in the last decade: globalization is a keyword that also affects food and dishes. Medicine has gained new insights into nutrition, and eating and drinking properly has become a part and a mandate of the early 21st century. With around 500 completely new recipes, described in the usual easy and understandable manner.