Book excerpt: Consummate home cook and magazine editor Suzanne Gibbs shows us how to use a pressure cooker to create slow-cooked flavour in a fast-paced world. Pressure cookers allow us to cook quickly, cheaply and efficiently. The food is cooked in liquid at high temperatures, which shortens cooking time by up to 70 per cent. Because the method seals in flavour and nutrition, cheaper ingredients can be used to great effect. Here Suzanne selects more than 80 of her favourite pressure-cooker recipes, and describes the process from beginning to end. Learn how to cook an osso bucco in 25 minutes, a chicken tagine in 15 minutes and a delicious bread and butter pudding in 20 minutes. Packed with information on practicalities, such as choosing, using and cleaning your cooker, and fully illustrated with beautiful photography. The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book is a must-have guide for anyone balancing the constraints of time and money with a desire to create delicious healthy meals for themselves, their friends and their families.