The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces
The Best Italian Pestos, Marinaras, Ragùs, and Other Cooked and Fresh Sauces for Every Type of Pasta Imaginable
by Allan Bay
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Pub Date Oct 18 2022 | Archive Date Nov 22 2022
Quarto Publishing Group – Harvard Common Press | Harvard Common Press
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Description
Everybody loves pasta—but not if it’s made the same way night after night. Families with kids, especially, eat loads of pasta, but it’s awfully easy to get stuck in a “red-sauce rut,” eating one version or another of marinara sauce over and over again. Enter author Allan Bay, an expat who lives in Rome who has written some of Italy’s best-selling cookbooks. Bay opens up in these pages a big, bold new world of pasta sauces, some from the classic Italian repertoire, other brilliant new creations of his own. They have all sorts of main ingredients, from beef and chicken to shrimp and clams to glorious veggies from artichokes to zucchini. All of the sauces are easy to prepare and every one cooks up fast.
The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces includes:
- Asparagus and Pine Nut Sauce
- Meatball Ragout
- Cioppino
- Pesto Sauce, plus six different pesto variations
- Chicken Ragout
- Nantua Sauce with Shrimp
- Lamb Ragout with Porcinis
- Roman Cauliflower Sauce
There are bowls and bowls of kid-friendly sauces and plenty of grownup sauces, too. Each recipe comes with one to three “Best On” recommendations, along with additional “Also Good On” ideas that range from different shapes of standard wheat pasta to egg noodles, polenta, rice, and more. There are suggestions, too, for serving the various sauces directly on meats, poultry, or fish—something that is very common in Italy but less familiar elsewhere.
This deliciously creative book makes pasta and pasta sauces more exciting than they’ve ever been before.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780760376478 |
| PRICE | $27.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 256 |
Featured Reviews
Susan H, Reviewer
This book is a gorgeous compilation of great sounding sauces. For the non-Italian cook, like myself, it offers a multitude of pasta sauces that I'd never even dreamed of. The recipes use scratch ingredients, so the cook knows exactly what's going into the sauce. The book does not include instruction on how to make the entire meal - only the sauces. But that's what the book is all about that's the title of the book.
Some things that I particularly like about this book are:
-The first few pages contain explanations of what ingredients are, such as a soffrito, or a grana
-The recipes are simple, each on only one page. Some will take minutes to prepare, others will take hours
- With each recipe, you'll find a list of things that the sauce is "Best On" and some that "Goes Well On"
I was provided with an advance reader copy of this book. This is my honest review.
Reviewer 787153
The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces is BIBLE for pasta and sauce with 200 recipes for pestos, ragùs, and sauces. Most are savory but some are also sweet and the style of pasta varies throughout. The recipes in this book are accessible, versatile, and interesting. I love that each recipe gives you a few suggestions of what the sauce is best on and what else it goes well with. This allows for endless customization and interpretation by each cook.
The sections found in this book are the following:
-Healthy and Vibrant Vegetable Sauces
-Everybody Loves Pesto
-A Treasury of Tomato Sauces
-Cheese Sauces and Egg Sauces
-All Kind of Ragùs
-Fresh From the Sea Fish and Seafood Sauces
-Hearty Meat Sauces
-The Basics
This is a wonderful book for anyone who loves pasta - don't miss this one! Thank you to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group for the ARC. The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces is out now!
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