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Feb 02, 2014

As poor college students on a limited budget, my family is obviously not the intended audience of this book... lots of kinds of cheeses I expected- and am prepared to splurge for on occasion- but lots of the recipes called for ingredients which are really rather pricy or just plain hard to find when you live in a small town- ingredients like veal stock (what, isn't regular beef stock good enough?), nasturtiums, and goose liver, among other things. I have no doubt that if you actually made the As poor college students on a limited budget, my family is obviously not the intended audience of this book... lots of kinds of cheeses I expected- and am prepared to splurge for on occasion- but lots of the recipes called for ingredients which are really rather pricy or just plain hard to find when you live in a small town- ingredients like veal stock (what, isn't regular beef stock good enough?), nasturtiums, and goose liver, among other things. I have no doubt that if you actually made the recipes in the book they would be very nice gourmet meals, but I was so put off by all the substitutions I would need to make that I just had a hard time being particularly inspired by the recipes. ...more

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Nov 13, 2007

this is a large book with a lot of step by step illustrations on how to make homemade pastas and all the sauces to put on top. the detailed instructions make it handy for a beginner and the sauces are great inspiration for experienced cooks. i don't make a lot of homemade pasta but i constantly refer to this book for the recipes and sauces to use with store bought pasta.

3

Nov 28, 2007

This book does indeed cover just about all kinds of pasta, but it doesn't have a lot of recipes for actually making the various kinds of pasta it recommends. Most of the recipes are for fancy sauces.

3

Oct 07, 2014

In this collection of pasta dishes are over 1,000 illustrations highlighting the simply written directions. Many different ethnic cuisines are represented.