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Product Description

In this book, the author has drawn together one hundred of the best pasta sauce recipes, encountered after many years of living, eating and cooking in Italy. Many of them are simple sauces that can be cooked in a few minutes. Others are elaborate confections from the kitchens of great Italian families. All of them adapt well to the needs of other countries, and other climates.

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Product Details

Publisher	Ten Speed Press
ISBN	0898152321
Creator	Robert Budwig
Author	Diane Seed
Format	Paperback
Label	Ten Speed Press
Dewey Decimal Number	641.822
Studio	Ten Speed Press
EAN	9780898152326
Number Of Pages	128
Title	The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces
Release Date	2004-03-01
Publication Date	2004-03-01
Manufacturer	Ten Speed Press

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Customer Reviews

YUM, YUM, YUM!!!!!!

Review by ROSE, 2010-03-25

So many alternatives to just red sauce. Magnificent illustrations!
The book itself is a gorgeous decoration to leave out everyday.

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The best cookbook I own

Review by Anders Fagerjord, 2009-11-12

I bought this little book after a trip to Italy in 1992. More than 15 years later, I still use it every week. I Haven't made all 100 recipes, but about 80, I guess. It's taught me Italian cooking in a straightforward style. When I go to Italy, the menus in restaurants are familiar to me. Not only are the recipes honest, simple, and tasty, but the drawings are very, very cute. Recommended!

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Indispensible

Review by Amber Pieloor, 2009-07-26

Years ago I got this book cheap where I worked. I thought that maybe I could use some of the ideas in it. I tried many of the recipes and loved them. The treatment of pasta sauce is so much simpler, and makes better strategic use of the ingredients. Then my former roommate swiped the book when she moved out. I'm going to have to replace it now, so I can figure out real bolognese again. ;)

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The perfect addition to any cookbook library!

Review by L. P. Kirker, 2008-08-05

My husband hates pasta when we eat out, too rich. However, whenever I have cooked from this book, he's happy as a clam. I've prepared 60% of the recipes in Diane's book, and each one has been perfect. Simple ingredients with wonderful flavor. A must have!!!

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Great book, but be careful

Review by Derrick Peterman, 2007-05-06

This book was rather amazing. All of the recipes turned out great, and many of them were very simple. The traditional pasta sauces like Pesto and Pomodoro turned out quite well, and several simple vegetable sauces also turned surprisingly good for how simple they were to prepare. Simple grocery store canned tuna was turned into something wonderful in Seed's recipes for Tonno e Limone and Tonne e Pomodoro. And my favorite recipe I've tried so far was a lemon sauce made from heavy cream, two lemons, a little grappa, and nothing else. It just provided a very silky, lemony coating to some very fortunate linguine. The best thing about these recipes is that they work in a weekday throw together meal or as the pasta course in an elegant Italian dinner. It's a really versatile book, and very nicely illustrated to boot.

The only downside is that the recipes are a little imprecise for my taste. Too often, I found myself asking "do I simmer covered, or uncovered" and other various forks in the recipe road where the author provides no direction. I understand this is part of the nature of Italian cooking and if it turns out well, who cares? But a beginning cook is probably going to find this a bit confusing, and those who like precise recipes down to the letter are probably not going to like it as much as I did.

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