Product Description

Take a masterclass in serving up perfect pasta with chef and cooking teacher Eric Treuille and Italian food expert Anna del Conte Cook up classic sauces like pesto and puttanesca, quick options like tuna with lemon and capers and sauces to impress such as scallops with crème fraîche and dill. Discover which pasta works best with which sauce and learn the ten commandments for guaranteed success. Fuss-free recipes are arranged by ingredient so you can choose according to what’s in your cupboard. Plus, they’re sign-posted as no-cook, quick-cook, or slow-cook so you know at a glance which fits your life. Menu ideas with think-ahead tips help you prepare and plan. Forget ready-made meals, change the way you cook pasta forever and learn to whip up fast, fresh and fabulous sauce in the time it takes to boil water. (Content taken from a previous edition of Pasta)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9848 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 168 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Pasta: Every Way for Every Day shows what a versatile, as well as healthy, food pasta really is. Written by Eric Treuille, director of the Books for Cooks cooking school in Notting Hill, and Anna del Conte, author of 12 books on Italian cooking, it explains the various types of pasta, how to make them and how to cook them. The level of cooking is described for each recipe and there is plenty to choose from "quick cook", "no cook" and "slow cook" recipes.

Throughout, the authors give their own hints and tips, from the proper way to boil pasta (never fling it in a pan with some water and a pinch of salt) to freezing tomato puree (easy when you know how). There are suggestions for fast and simple sauces, pasta that children love and pasta to impress friends, as well as recipes to use when cooking for large numbers and dishes that can be cooked in advance.

The recipes are easy to follow with the methods of preparation in the same order as the list of ingredients. This is a book that is suitable for hopeless cooks as well as the clever ones. If you follow the recipes, it is unlikely you will go wrong. --Judith Spelman

Review
A masterclass in how to cook perfect pasta (Daily Telegraph )

About the Author
Eric Treuille is currently director of the Books For Cooks cooking school in Notting Hill, London, Eric is also the author of Canapés, Bread, Barbecue, The Organic Cookbook and Le Cordon Bleu’s Complete Guide to Cooking Techniques. He divides his time between France and London. Anna Del Conte is the author of 12 highly regarded books on Italian cooking, including The Gastronomy of Italy, for which she was awarded the Duchessa Maria Luigia di Parma prize. In 1996 Anna received the Orio Vergani prize for her book The Classic Food of Northern Italy. Anna lives in Dorset.

Customer Reviews

Good food done quickly and easily
This book has made a hero amongst friends and family.They think
the great pasta dishes I have made for them is down to me, but it
is this book that deserves all the praise!.

Take it from me ,as someone who used to burn toast, the easy to follow instructions and easy to get ingredients can make you also
a highly regarded cook amongst your peers.

The book also provides tips on how to make your own pasta and how
prepare the food.It is also beautifully illustrated with photographs that give an idea how the food should eventually
look like.

Excellent everyday cookbook
Bought this book after browsing through a lot of books in a real 'old fashioned' bookstore. It's a excellent choice. Every single recipe I've tried so far is superb. And the best thing is you don't need very special ingredients. The book uses 'normal' ingredients that are easy to get by, has a very handy index to search recipes with specific ingredients, cooking times and for different occasions. In short: this is one of the very best cookbooks I've ever bought. Brilliant!

Amazing
I've had this book for 5 years now and the major impact it's had on my life is the avoidance of many Italian restaurants because I've realised from this book how easy it is to make great pasta easily. The instructions are well thought through and easy to follow. The ingrediants are the kind you'll find in most kitchens.

The thing that has really impressed me is the pasta's for occassions section. As the book has a huge mix of pasta's for different occassions this section groups them into the occassions e.g. Pasta Solo, Pasta for Children, Pasta to Impress (and I have impressed ;-) )

This is a fantastic book. The only down side now is that I expect all recipe books to offer the same standard of instruction and the same number of impressive recipes.

Now I'm off to open an Italian Restraurant that serves top notch pasta...always