Whether preparing a weeknight dinner for their family or entertaining friends on the weekend, home cooks want their meals to be delicious and stress-free. Menu planning is hard even for experienced cooks, but Academia Barilla, the internationally regarded center designed to maintain and promote the great traditions of Italian cooking, takes the guesswork out of what to serve with 125 Million Gourmet Menus. This gold mine of menu ideas takes 220 recipes and provides seemingly countless (well, 125 million!) combinations. This innovative cookbook features a user-friendly enclosed spiral binding with cut pages separating each of the four sections—appetizers, first-course dishes, mains, and desserts—so that different parts of each page can be turned independently, allowing the cook to select a recipe from each section to compose a meal. Side dish options are also included. All of the 220 recipes include a shopping list, prep time, difficulty level, and calories. They also are peppered with information on ingredients that pair well together. Journal pages allow for personal notations about both menus and dishes.