The storytelling was enterntaing. Wasn’t crazy for the recipes. The felt very basic and some had weird ingredients to find.

Fun, hilarious, delicious. Will be honest he was a new name to me when I downloaded this but am a fan now. Would absolutely buy this as a gift for a fun loving foodie friend.

I had to pick this one up bc, duh, Matteo Lane.

This is a KILLLLLLER coffee table book, for one. Two, it truly does double as a cook book.

Matteo Lane is hilarious and didn't disappoint here. Who wouldn't want to learn “how to cook pasta like an Italian, Irish, Mexican homosexual"?

{Thank you bunches to Matteo Lane, JJ Goode, NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the DRC in exchange for my honest review!}

This was amusing, and I loved that he included recipes from his blood family and his found family. I loved the full-color photos and teh instructions are easy to follow. The best part though? For the first time., I wasn't yelled at to make my own pasta. I was encouraged but not judged if I needed to used dried.

I love reading cookbooks by comedians! Every page is filled with Matteo's life and humor. Matteo is true to himself and shows you a little piece of who he is as a person as well as the foods that have been passed down through generations.

This book brings a great home feeling. The recipes scream comfort and cozy Italian. I will definitely be making multiple dishes from this book.

Pasta recipes with Matteo’s wit. And a sprinkle of Nick? Sign me the f**k up. This was informative and funny af

Such a fun take on a cookbook, with really accessible recipes and hilarious hot takes! I loved all the photography and inclusion of so many memories from Rome

I'm not sure what I was expecting from a cook book, but I've seen Matteo's comedy around the internet and not only is this book hilarious but the recipes look incredible! I'm super excited to test out these meals but also I've never really laughed so much while reading a cook book! Highly recommend.

I could tell by the cover I was going to love this book and I'm really thankful for the opportunity to preview it. I haven't made any of the recipes yet but simply reading the book was time well spent. The photography throughout is stunning. The stories are relatable and hilarious. I love that each recipe begins with a story and not a short blurb like most cookbooks. Reading this book felt like spending time with an opinionated gay friend telling you exactly how it is, and then enjoying some delicious food after.

In Your Pasta Sucks, Matteo Lane, famous comedian has written a beautiful book to assist readers in cooking pasta and making other Italian dishes. He explained his relationship with pasta and how it’s been his best relationship. It’s always available in your kitchen and it won’t lie or ghost you. In the book, he shared how he loves to laugh and make jokes. He takes his pasta making very seriously though. He shared how he ate pasta at least three times a week growing up and his love has only deepened with time. He touched on his grandfather and how he had a secret family and he gave his other kids the same name where he wouldn’t accidently mess up. In the book, he enclosed key helpful items to keep on hand at all times. These are basil, cheese of all kinds, guanciale, pancetta, olive oil, salt, just to name a few. He also enlightened how to make pasta water and how this is key to salty water and makes the dish taste even better. He explored how to buy pasta, and the different shapes, and how to cook pasta. Some of the recipes in this book was: lasagna, Kate’s meatballs, penne alla vodka, two mac and cheeses, Cherie’s struffoli, fettuccine alfredo, and countless others.


I would recommend this book to anyone who is seeking a new good Italian book. I really enjoyed the color pictures of the food and his personal photos throughout the book. I also thought it was cool that he added a personal story before a lot of the recipes and it helped readers to get a glimpse into his family. I liked how he did the measurements in grams and cups, lbs, and other standard measures. This is a beautiful cookbook with high quality photos that readers will enjoy.






“I received this book free from the Chronicle Book for my honest review.”

I enjoyed this cookbook! It seems like a great source for elevated pasta recipes that draw on flavors of different parts of Italy. There are a few that I am excited to try. I really like the pictures and stories included in the book. I am a vegetarian and there were quite a few meat dishes, but there is still enough that I can eat and enjoy.

A great mix of humor and recipes! Lane has a true gift for comedic delivery and this was a riot of a side quest!

It is no surprise that Matteo Lane has written a funny book... I am just surprised that there is just so much humor in pasta. The voice is strong, the advice for cooking high quality dishes is stronger.

I am really enjoying the cooking tips and the recipes in this book.

Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for providing an advance review copy of this book to be published on April 1st 2025

This is my first book review. I love reading cookbooks. I have over 300 from around the world. I chose this book because for the last 3 years I lived near Livorno, Italy. I traveled in the north and south parts of Italy. I was working with 15-20 Italians. So I felt somewhat qualified to review the book. Since I read a lot of cookbooks I notice certain differences in the writing. This cookbook was above and beyond all others. The book read like a family history cooking lesson. I was told by my Italian NONNA that 95% of all Italian recipes have less than 5 ingredients. But the most important part of the dish are the ingredients. How fresh and how they were prepared before going into the dish. This cookbook points out freshness and quality of the food and the importance of using the right pasta for the right sauce. Highly recommended.

Beautiful food photography, delicious recipes. Can’t wait to make them all! Can’t go wrong with a an entire book of pasta and cute gay men, ha ha

Not only are all the selected dishes here seem quite easy enough for any home cook (not to mention all quite tasty-looking), but I also quickly grew to love the humor and fine wit that Matteo Lane packs into the pages. This honestly might be the first cookbook ever where I think that I actually ended up looking forward more to the recipe introductions than the recipes themselves!

I adore this book. It's pretty rare that a cookbook will both make me bust out laughing and wow me with delicious recipes. I can't wait to buy a physical copy and work my way through it.

I'm a big fan of pasta and own quite a few pasta cookbooks, but this one is a stand out in that the recipes feel so lived in and the anecdotes accompanying each of them give them excellent context. I have made Pasta della Mamma three times already and quite honestly it might be the best pantry pasta recipe that I have ever tasted. It will be one I return to for the rest of my life.

I'm so excited to dig into the rest of the recipes and have no doubt that they will be just as delicious!

So fun. Part cookbook, part comedy routine. If you follow Matteo on social media, you'll be familiar with some of the stories and a lot of the characters (including a section with Nick which is the best part).... and if you don't follow him on socials, why not?!?! Get to it! More than just entertaining, Matteo makes it out like cooking good pasta actually isn't that hard and while the recipes have a lot of repetition, I now know some great tips that I will never forget. I can definitely see myself buying this book as a gift for friends next holiday season.

I’ve never gotten so much joy out of a book whose title is insulting me.
Matteo Lane, known more as a comedian, is fantastic at blending stories of family and travel through Italy with the recipes that will make you wish you’re reading this with a gigantic bowl of pasta. You will keep yourself laughing!

I don't review a lot of cookbooks, I use a lot of cookbooks though, and let me tell you right now this isn't your average cookbook. I enjoy Matteo Lane's comedy, I don't know much more about him other than he is funny and I laugh when I see his performances. Of course, he would make a cookbook that would be filled with his sense of humor. I enjoyed his descriptions of cheeses...which is a weird thing to say and how he ties in all of his family's recipes to a story or memory. I love how even the recipes aren't your typical recipes, my favorite bit was when he described how his sister hangs her cheesecloth on the faucet like a hobo bag for making ricotta. Which is directly in the recipe. Then we have the addition of his "found family" and some of their recipes including simple mac and cheese using a box of mac and cheese. I think this is the perfect amount of sentiment, humor, stories, and recipes to make a cookbook enjoyable and entertaining beyond the kitchen.