- Recipes include colorful icons to indicate at-a-glance low-calorie, heart-healthy, 30-minute meals, make-ahead, and slow-cooker choices. Chapters cover everything from appetizers to desserts, and there are special chapters on one-dish meals, vegetarian main meals, and fast weeknight meals.
- Includes smart phone tags that link to 35 helpful Good Housekeeping how-to cooking videos. The user simply scans the tags with a free phone app to view them. For users without smart phones, URLs are also provided to view the videos on the web.
- Under the direction of Susan Westmoreland, The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen buys approximately 17,000 pounds of food, performs 1,700 taste tests, and washes 77,000 dishes every year to make sure that every delicious recipe works in any oven or stovetop, with any brand of ingredients, no matter what.