Pasta Recipes & Techniques

by Julia della Croce

Book Overview

Affordable paperbacks on stylish and contemporary topics created for people with full and busy lives. Clear explanations on a variety of subjects from gardening, cooking and health are enhanced by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B002JIQCBW
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cooking Club of America
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thorough book with good recipes

I like this book. I'd been looking for a sort of comprehensive book on pasta for a while, and this certainly fulfills my expectations.Della Croce provides pretty much all you need to know: a brief history, how to make pasta (but all of them are all'uovo), and really good recipes, it's all there. She also includes a good section on sauces. I made a couple of her recipes already, and they work very well. Most recipes are based on tradition but not really standard: she likes to play around. Also, most ingredients are available at major supermarkets in the US, which can't be said for all cookbooks. The illustrated short sections on, for instance, how to cut up artichokes, are helpful, and they make the book look good. Also excellent: the index--not all cookbooks have ingredients listed in the index. I like the format also, the size of the pages, and the book stays flat when it's on the counter. And I'm probably a sucker for the pictures of all the different kinds of pasta and all the tools used.Minor criticism: most of the photographs are in the front, where Della Croce gives an overview of types of pasta (fresh, dry, stuffed, etc.) so you have to leaf around a bit. Also, I don't really like all of the photographs: it seems to me that some of them have been enhanced a bit too much, that a lot of color was added. The cover looks that way already: it's saffron tagliatelle, to be sure, but it is a bit too yellow and green. Another thing: what you don't find are menu suggestions--it appears that all of the recipes are "stand alone" dishes.But despite these minor comments, I am terribly pleased with the book; I'm glad I shopped around a bit and ran into this one. Grazie Julia!