New Revisesd Cookbook by Virginia Baltay Encourages 

A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker

In her revised cookbook, A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker: Recipes, Stories & Saucy Suggestions, home cook Virginia Baltay entices even the most reluctant chef to join the pressure cooker movement. Her lifelong passion — captured in recipes, color photos, stories, and tricks of the trade—unfolds whimsically in this new, softcover volume, available online at www.Amazon.com. The new version promotes safe digital pressure cookers, like the ever popular Instant Pot.

A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker is a timely addition to any kitchen. With the rise in popularity of stovetop models and the Instant Pot, bloggers and foodies alike are enthusiastic about the ease of the pressure cooker's instant, quick meals. So is Baltay, who presents the modern pressure cooker as a simple solution to healthy, fast, economical meals. 

Her colorful cookbook is an essential primer to the nuances of pressure cooking. You will be enticed to join the movement as you:

​•​Take the Pressure Cooker Virgin Test

​•​Find your soul mate—stovetop or digital Instant Pot

​•​Say “I Do” to the PC Oath for safety and success

​•​Begin your affair with an Outrageous O!

​•​Enjoy stimulating color photos and more than 100 simple recipes for main dishes & entrees, soups, veggies, desserts and more

​•​Learn Techniques and Tricks of the Trade to strengthen skills

​•​Experiment with luscious, fresh, all-natural ingredients

​•​Get Matchmaker Advice about performance, efficiency and positive PC vibes.

Baltay truly wants home chefs to love the pressure cooker just as she has for the past 60 years. Over the decades, she has created more than 15,000 pressure cooked meals, growing her expertise with each appealing soup, stew, and dessert. 

But A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker is not just a cookbook. It is also a culinary memoir that spans from Baltay’s World War II childhood in Middletown, New York to modern-day reflections about terrorism, sustainability, and nutrition. 

An award-winning teacher, curriculum designer, grant writer and photographer, Baltay retired in 2010 and moved on to an intense involvement in environmental outreach and citizen science, notably winning grants and developing materials for the educational programs at Outer Island, a unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge. 

Her professional life has always co-existed with her family and her life in the kitchen. Cooking is a daily outlet for her creativity with the pressure cooker. She has raised a remarkable brood of five children and is blessed with 13 grandchildren and a long marriage. With skill and imagination, she has entertained vast numbers of family and friends, always following her beloved mantra: “Be clever; prepare quick, healthy, tasty meals and everyone is happy.” Baltay hopes home chefs will fall in love with pressure cooking, just like she did! 

Copies of A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker are available for $17.99 from www.amazon.com.

INFORMATION SHEET

A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker

Recipes, Stories & Saucy Suggestions

Revised Edition November, 2022

Stovetop Models to Instant Pots

A Cookbook & Culinary Memoir by Virginia Baltay

Cover and Drawings by Alice Baudat

Pressure Cooker and Instant Pot Sketches by Luke Baltay

Paperback Edition, 224 pages.

125 original, full-cover photos

ISBN: 979-8-218-07747-1

Price: $17.99

A Steamy Affair with a Pressure Cooker

Recipes, Stories & Saucy Suggestions

Hardcover Edition, 245 pages. September 2020

125 original, full-color photos

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 978-0578-50294-6

Guilford, CT

COOKING / Pressure Cooking

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Culinary

Contact Details

Published by Long Cove Press

86 Lower Rd

Guilford, CT 06437

203-676-7950

Hard Copies available from Long Cove Press

Address inquiries to 

Virginia.baltay@gmail.com

Reviews and comments on website

Website www.pressurecookeraffair.com/

Original Hardcover Book Printed by McNaughton and Gunn

960 Woodland Dr E, Saline, MI 48176

United States of America

Book Designer 

Jen Payne, Words by Jen 

Branford, CT

www.wordsbyjen.com