My boyfriend is obsessed with sandwiches. A sandwich would be his final request on his death bed, I know it. I gave him this book for Christmas in 2011 and he couldn't stop talking about all the sandwiches he wanted to make from this book. I really don't remember how in the world we got started on this tradition, but we decided at some point in early feb. 2012 that our valentine's evening would be spent in the kitchen working together to create a mutually agreed upon sandwich from this book & it was so much fun & so delicious we ended up doing that for both our birthdays, our anniversary, the next valentines day and so on. It's really neat because ever since the first time we took one of those big sticky tab page flag things & wrote "valentine's day 2012" or whatever & stuck it on the page of the sandwich we made. So now when we get the book out & turn to one of those tabs it's like "oh remember last year when we made the xyz and that funny thing happened" or something like that. It's turned out to be really neat. It's such a low key way to celebrate something & it takes all the pressure off both of us. Anyway, I'll stop gushing now :)The book has tons and tons of sandwiches in it. Some are basic run of the mill deli type options but others are super fancy and quite elaborate (those are the ones we choose.) in addition the recipe, each sandwich includes the history and any other relevant facts of the sandwich or it's key ingredients. It tells how they got their name, where it was first popular, some famous person that eats one 3 times a day (j/k)...stuff like that. if you like sandwiches you gotta have this book!