The recipes are kind of white American and specific to whatever food was a standard when your edition came out. Related to that, since it's a physical medium there's a limitation on how many recipes they hold.
More particularly, the recipes seem to have unnecessary steps or inefficient ways of doing things. For example, there was a quiche recipe I tried that called for putting all the non-egg things into the crust and then mixing the eggs in a bowl and pouring it over everything. Only somehow I had way more egg than room for it. Next time I did it I put the egg in first and sunk the non-egg stuff into it. That way I could just stop adding cheese/bacon/onion if it got too full instead of having a bowl of egg in the fridge.