The Long and the Short of Pasta


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The Long and the Short of Pasta showcases the best Italian pastas from across the country. With dishes from Tuscany to Rome, this book brings to life the soul of Italy. Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi bring together a collection of incredible pasta dishes inspired by their lifetime travelling Italy and cooking Italian food. Enjoy dishes such as a Roman potato gnocchi in a tomato sauce, spaghetti with sardine and wild fennel sauce from Sicily and scialatielli with a porcini and pancetta sauce from the Amalfi Coast. Covering the basics of making fresh pasta and the perfect sauces to pair them with, this will give anyone the confidence to master the art of Italy’s most beloved ingredient. As with all of the Caldesi’s books, it will include gorgeous photographs of the Italian landscape and city portraits paired with personal travel musings and historical anecdotes about the origins of the recipes.




The Golden Book of Pasta


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The Golden Book of Pasta is your one-stop pasta cookbook. It features more than 100 delicious sauces to serve with quick and easy store-bought pasta, such as spaghetti, penne, and dried tagliatelle. You'll also find detailed visual-techniques pages that show you how to make exquisite fresh, filled, and baked pasta classics, including ravioli, tortellini, and lasagna. The final chapter focuses on noodles, presenting more than 60 recipes with ideas for serving an array of delicious oriental pasta dishes. "Buon appetito!" --Publisher description.




Back Pocket Pasta


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Here are more than 75 sophisticated, weeknight-friendly pasta dishes that come together in the same amount of time it takes to boil the water. As much a mindset as it is a cookbook, Back Pocket Pasta shows how a well-stocked kitchen and a few seasonal ingredients can be the driving force behind delicious, simply prepared meals. Pantry staples—a handful of items to help you up your dinner game—give you a head start come 6pm, so you can start cooking in your head on the way home from work. For instance, if you know that you have a tin of anchovies, a hunk of parmesan, and panko bread crumbs, you can pick up fresh kale to make Tuscan Kale "Caesar" Pasta. Or if you have capers, red pepper flakes, and a lemon, you can make Linguine with Quick Chili Oil. With genius flavor combinations, a gorgeous photograph for every recipe, and a smart guide to easy-drinking cocktails and wine, Back Pocket Pasta will inspire you to cook better meals faster. "Who knew just five ingredients could taste like magic?!" --Refinery29




Pasta


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PASTA contains more than 150 authentic Italian pasta recipes, the very same ones used every day in Italian Kitchens. This unique book covers the entire spectrum, from long (spaghetti, linguini), to short (rigatoni, fusilli), to ribbon shapes (tagliatella, fettuccini), to stuffed pastas (ravioli, lasagna). The recipes are easy to prepare & require no special expertise, other than a desire to cook, & enjoy these traditional & modern Italian dishes. Whatever your taste - a simple linguini with tuna, a ten minute fettuccini with prosciutto & cream, or a succulent farfalle in herbed tomato sauce - these recipes will satisfy. PASTA like the other volumes in the Authentic Italian Kitchen series, is printed on real Italian butcher paper & bound in durable cardboard. All of these books contain hand-drawn images from the original Italian editions, which have become so popular in Italy over the past fifteen years. PASTA also includes an introduction with notes from the American leader, a glossary of terms & ingredients, & a complete index. Other titles in the Authentic Italian Kitchen series are: VEGETARIAN COOKING, PEASANT COOKING, ON THE GRILL, REGIONAL COOKING, SEAFOOD MARINARA, APPETIZERS, & FISH. Make check, money order, or purchase order payable to: Strawpaper Press, 258 West Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06515 (add $1.95 for S&H). Call (203) 397-1940 for orders of five books or more. Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, 814 North Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610; 312-337-0743; 800-888-4741.




A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce


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A surprisingly wide-ranging journey into the story of this beloved dish and “an utterly fascinating discourse on food history” (The Daily Beast). Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, this is a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognizable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encounters, dialogue, and exchange. Is it possible to identify a starting point in history from which everything else unfolds—a single moment that can explain the present and reveal the essence of who we are? According to Massimo Montanari, this is just a myth. Historical phenomena can only be understood dynamically—by looking at how events and identities develop and change as a result of encounters and combinations that are often unexpected. As he shows in this lively, brilliant, and surprising essay, finding the origin of spaghetti—or anything else—is not as simple as it may seem. By tracing the history of the one of Italy’s “national dishes” —from Asia to America, from Africa to Europe; from the beginning of agriculture to the Middle Ages and up to the twentieth century—he reveals that in order to understand our own identity, we almost always need to look beyond ourselves to other cultures, peoples, and traditions. “Montanari’s research will delight readers and provide plenty of fodder for dinner-table discussion.” —Booklist “Full of delicious details.” —Publishers Weekly




I Love Pasta


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Pasta is the food that succeeds in reconciling different customs and cultures and in overcoming cultural and geographical borders, and this is owing to its versatility. A different and original point of view for discovering how much originality - and taste - is hidden behind a plate of pasta.




Encyclopedia of Pasta


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Illustrated throughout with original drawings by Luciana Marini, this will bethe standard reference on one of the world's favorite foods for many years tocome, engaging and delighting both general readers and food professionals.




My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South


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The first cookbook from this little-known region of Italy celebrates the richness of the region's landscape and the allure of its cuisine, featuring recipes for easily accessible, fresh-from-the-garden Italian food from a Calabrian native.




An A-Z of Pasta


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Guardian columnist and award-winning food writer Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy's favourite food in a practical, easy-to-use and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes. Along with the recipes are short essays that weave together the history, culture and the everyday life of pasta shapes from the tip to the toe of Italy. There is pasta made with water, and pasta with egg; shapes made by hand and those rolled a by machine; the long and the short; the rolled and the stretched; the twisted and the stuffed; the fresh and the dried. The A-Z of Pasta tells you how to match pasta shapes with sauces, and how to serve them. The recipes range from the familiar - pesto, ragù and carbonara - to the unfamiliar (but thrilling). This is glorious celebration of pasta from one of the best food writers of our time. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMONS FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS ________________________ 'I love this book. Every story is a little gem - a beautiful hymn to each curl, twist and ribbon of pasta.' Nigel Slater 'Rachel Roddy describing how to boil potatoes would inspire me. There are very, very few who possess such a supremely uncluttered culinary voice as hers, just now' Simon Hopkinson 'Rachel Roddy's writing is as absorbing as any novel' Russell Norman, author of Polpo 'Roddy is a gifted storyteller, and a masterful hand with simple ingredients' Guardian Cook




The Sprouted Kitchen


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Sprouted Kitchen food blogger Sara Forte showcases 100 tempting recipes that take advantage of fresh produce, whole grains, lean proteins, and natural sweeteners—with vivid flavors and seasonal simplicity at the forefront. Sara Forte is a food-loving, wellness-craving veggie enthusiast who relishes sharing a wholesome meal with friends and family. The Sprouted Kitchen features 100 of her most mouthwatering recipes. Richly illustrated by her photographer husband, Hugh Forte, this bright, vivid book celebrates the simple beauty of seasonal foods with original recipes—plus a few favorites from her popular Sprouted Kitchen food blog tossed in for good measure. The collection features tasty snacks on the go like Granola Protein Bars, gluten-free brunch options like Cornmeal Cakes with Cherry Compote, dinner party dishes like Seared Scallops on Black Quinoa with Pomegranate Gastrique, “meaty” vegetarian meals like Beer Bean– and Cotija-Stuffed Poblanos, and sweet treats like Cocoa Hazelnut Cupcakes. From breakfast to dinner, snack time to happy hour, The Sprouted Kitchen will help you sneak a bit of delicious indulgence in among the vegetables.