Product Description

Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers' latest series of books is an essential addition to every kitchen. This definitive collection of pasta recipes brings together a unique range of dishes from the River Cafe, beautifully packaged with a striking design by the award-winning designer of the new Guardian Berliner, in a handy paperback format. Rose and Ruth's love and understanding of traditional Italian food has made their world famous River Cafe a much-loved institution, and nowhere is their passion more evident than in their pasta dishes. For ease of use, they've collected their best 100 recipes together in one book for the first time. People always want new ideas for sauces and here you can choose between meat- or fish-based sauces, cheese sauces, even vegetarian sauces. They also include ideas for stuffed pasta and gnocchi and offer invaluable tips and advice throughout. Whether you've never used a River Cafe book or are a committed fan, this book makes essential reading.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128421 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Ruth Rogers is the American-born wife of architect Richard Rogers. Rose Gray ran the kitchen at Nell's Club in New York before joining Ruth Rogers to launch the River Cafe. Together they have made the River Cafe one of the most respected restaurants in the world and have trained many of the new generation of star chefs, from Samuel and Samantha Clark to Jamie Oliver.

Customer Reviews

Don't bother if you have other River Cafe books
Don't bother with this book if you have any other River Cafe books. This book is literally bubble and squeak, reprinted recipes form other books.

A no-nonsense, no-bull approach to cooking vegetables
A versatile book offering a variety of recipes for cooking the simplest and often the most mundane of ingredients - the vegetable. The recipes included are well chosen and are intentionally simple and accessible in the usual River Cafe style presentation and style of cooking i.e. straightforward and honest. The style of photography is very much 'what you see is what you get' as opposed to the soft focus photography of many cook books that more often than not leads to dissatisfaction when your own efforts never quite look like the idealised and filtered results of the clever food photographer. The writing style is no nonsense with nothing to sidetrack the reader.

I'd heartily recommend this book to the beginner, the cook who's stuck for ideas, the cook who's looking for different ways to cook vegetables and the experienced cook in need of a quick brainstorm. If you currently own any of the other River Cafe books (I have most of them) then this particular one is a useful quick reference book out of all the River Cafe Pocket Books (in my humble opinion). A little gem.

What?
"You may enjoy preparing and filleting fish yourself - with this in mind we have given instructions on how to do so at the end of this book" they wrote in the introduction...

Good luck with those instructions! Because Rose & Ruth don't care about their readers there are actually no instructions there "at the end".