This cookbook is a good asset for those new to pressure cooking. Sass provides the reader with information on how pressure cookers work, how to buy a pressure cooker, and how to use and maintain a pressure cooker. She also provides helpful tables on the cook times for meat and beans. The recipes in this book are fairly healthy and easy to follow, however, I found the taste to be mediocre. Of the recipes that I've tried from this cookbook, there is not one that I would make again.