The Pasta Bible

by Silvio Rizzi and Tan Lee Leng

Book Overview

A history of noodles, noodle making, and noodle varieties is followed by more than eighty recipes for international dishes from such diverse locales as Italy, Eastern Europe, and Japan--including... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670869961
• ISBN13: 9780670869961
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Deserving of the highest praise

The beginning to the experienced pasta maker will benefit from this book. Large, clearly printed, well outlined and containing lots of photos of the recipes, this book also has the "cooking school" format that has step by step photos. A entire chapter is devoted to dried pasta with photos of the different shapes. Never wonder what casereccie, banane, or grimigna are again! With this book, you will know! Imaginative use of fresh herbs pressed in sheets of pasta, cuisines from Italian to the Orient (and points in between), baked, stuffed, desserts, this book has enough ideas and recipes to get you started and keep you busy.

WOW. What a great book..

History, recipie, and skills all shown and done beautifully. THis is a great book.

Only pasta cookbook you'll ever need to own

Great illustrations, clear instructions, & lots of recipes. What more could anyone ask for?

Pasta Bible

I love this book. It explain how to make pasta from scatch and how to make many differt flavor of pasta. I got a pasta machine for Christmas and these recipes work great for my pasta machine

Essential for pasta lovers

This is an absolutely essential book for anyone who loves pasta. It is packed with wonderful color photos. The recipes are delicious. Some are quite involved and require exotic ingredients. Being so much more than a cookbook, it starts out with a brief history of pasta. It then discusses grain in detail. Pictures of each flour type & an illustration of a wheat grain are included here. There are also pictures all the of pasta tools. Next, dry pasta is covered. There are great photos of over 125 different pastas, including Asian noodles. It also demonstrates step by step how to make, & shape fresh pasta doughs from scratch. I loved the inclusion of colored, flavored pastas. The sweet pastas including chocolate noodles are divine. Other great recipes focused on pasta sauces, soups, dumplings, gnocchi, baked pastas and stuffed dishes.