What's not to love about the pressure cooker? Using pressure created by super-heated steam, the pressure cooker can cut cook times by 70 percent, meaning dinner is on the table faster, and with significantly less energy use. Your dinner will be more nutrient-rich because vitamins and other good things won't be lost in evaporating steam. And it will taste delicious and succulent because none of the food's moisture has been allowed to escape. Finally, today's modern pressure cooker has been re-engineered for safety and ease of use, including the development of the electric pressure cooker. Beth Hensperger is the author (with Julie Kaufmann) of the bestselling Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, as well as other top-selling appliance cookbooks, including The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook and The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook (co-authored with Julie Kaufmann), now in its second edition. Beth is also an expert baker and has written for Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and other online and national magazines. Julie Kaufmann spent her first career in journalism, including nine wonderful years as an editor on the award-winning Food & Wine section of the San Jose Mercury News. She is co-author with Beth Hensperger of The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, and Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining.
