There couldn't be a more perfect resource for discovering or rediscovering pressure cooking techniques.  The cookbook encompasses daily life in the kitchen with recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and spans full menus of soups, salads, entrées and desserts.  Ms. Wise's elite culinary career brings a great deal of panache and contemporary taste to a subject that sometimes suffers from stereotypes of the past.  The pressure cooking instructions are informational and in plain language.  Ms. Wise concentrates on creating flavor and delicious food with the pressure cooker as the means for getting to a satisfying end.  The book is organized by food groups and, in her wording, recipes range from "homey to haute."  This book gives every novice pressure cooker user the confidence to get started, and supplies the experienced cook with plenty of sweet successes that will keep the pressure pot busy every day!