Pasta is the most universally popular food today--inexpensive, easy to prepare, and extremely versatile. But to make a truly delicious pasta dish, we need to select the ideal pasta for the sauce--a combination decreed either by the consistency of the sauce or simply by tradition. To ensure each pasta dish is a triumph, choose from100 favorite recipes, including the endlessly versatile Pomodoro sauce and Pasta e Fagioli to the more elaborate Pasta alla Norma and Ravioli con la Soglia. Then mix and match the sauces at the upper half of the split-page book with the pastas along the lower half of the book to create literally thousands of ideal combinations. Valentina Harris is a noted authority on Italian food and culture; her bestseller, Recipes From an Italian Farmhouse, was a recipient of the James Beard Award. Among her other books are Simply Italian, Southern Italian Cooking, and Valentina's Italian Family Feast.
Pasta is the most universally popular food today--inexpensive, easy to prepare, and extremely versatile. But to make a truly delicious pasta dish, we need to select the ideal pasta for the sauce--a combination decreed either by the consistency of the sauce or simply by tradition. To ensure each pasta dish is a triumph, choose from100 favorite recipes, including the endlessly versatile Pomodoro sauce and Pasta e Fagioli to the more elaborate Pasta alla Norma and Ravioli con la Soglia. Then mix and match the sauces at the upper half of the split-page book with the pastas along the lower half of the book to create literally thousands of ideal combinations. Valentina Harris is a noted authority on Italian food and culture; her bestseller, Recipes From an Italian Farmhouse, was a recipient of the James Beard Award. Among her other books are Simply Italian, Southern Italian Cooking, and Valentina's Italian Family Feast.