The DIY kitchen trend takes a Southwestern and Mexican spin in this creative book that covers how to use, clean, and maintain a tortilla press and serves up 125 recipes for a lifetime of enjoying it. Thirty of the recipes are for every kind of tortilla imaginable--corn, flour, or gluten-free; and plain or flavored with all sorts of good things, from chile peppers or tomatoes to avocado or lime. The remaining 95 recipes are a feast of things to do with the freshly made tortillas, ranging from burritos and enchiladas to tacos, quesadillas, and beyond.

Ten years ago time-pressed home cooks with day jobs used a slow cooker to get dinner started in the morning and have it waiting for them at the end of the day. Many still do, but there is a new option--more like an old option undergoing a stunning revival--on the scene. Pressure cookers cook so fast that they make it possible to start a dinner at the end of the work day and have it on the table in fifteen or twenty minutes flat. New electric pressure cookers, whether the widely touted Instant Pot or the popular models from Presto, T-fal, Black + Decker, and other makers, are driving this...