[1] The new iteration was a more educational, scientific, and easy-to-use cookbook that contained clearer information and exact details about how to cook each dish.
It did away with old, vague measuring units like "coffee cup" and "pinch", which were replaced with liters, deciliters, and milliliters.
Its focus has changed over time, from covering efficiency to healthy eating to environmentally friendly cooking, but the endpoint has remained the same.
It has been described as a reference work that young adults are gifted when they move away from home, which is then kept and used long past when it has fallen apart.
[6] In 2017 the publisher Coop-Norstedts won the Gourmand World Cookbook's "best series" award for the vegetarian version Vår gröna kokbok.