Product Description

A food for all occasions, pasta's huge variety of shapes, textures and flavours make it the perfect basis for all types of meals. Carluccio provides innovative and exciting recipes for soups, main courses, salads and even desserts to promote this staple ingredient of Italian cookery to the rank of haute cuisine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11043 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
A revised and updated edition of the famous pasta book by one of the biggest names in modern cookery books. You can tell a book is a classic when the author's name is printed on the cover, as it is here, in letters that dwarf the title. You could call this book simply 'Carluccio' and bookshop customers would be flocking to it. This is one that makes a fetish of simple pasta, that uses a common basic foodstuff and turns it into a rare delicacy. The publishing genius of revised editions of cookery books is that owners of the original versions are bound to buy them because it is in the nature of good food that you always want more of the same. Here Carluccio delivers. Anyone for Chocolate Pasta Sauce? Form a line, children.

Customer Reviews

Sublime
This is, without a doubt, the difinitive guide to what to do now you own a pasta machine. My only complaint is that it lacks some of the great photography that marks modern cookery writing (see the "A little Taste of" series for what I mean). If you make your own pasta don't be daunted by the baffling array of shapes he uses, I find that most recipes work equally whatever I add them to (although this isn't a popularist view back in Italy). Given the game season is almost upon us, try the rabbit/pheasant/mushroom recipe - divine.

Great intro to pasta making
This is a great book to get as an introduction to pasta making. Has some beautiful reciepes and some great explanations about all the different kinds of pasta.