From: Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta

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A Passion for Pasta

Pasta, an Italian culinary art, and beloved the world over. From the everyday to the ultra special, across every shape and variety, the pasta dishes in these books will up your pasta game, and give you countless new ideas for this most popular and versatile of foods.

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta

Giuliano Hazan

“Fads may come and go but the appeal of pasta has endured,” writes Giuliano, who admits to having withdrawal symptoms if forced to go several days without pasta. These 100 recipes qualify as ‘quick and easy’ but they’re full of interest too, from simple broths to fancier dishes such as Linguine with Asparagus and Lobster. Giuliano gives reliable advice on how to stock a pasta pantry and why it’s worth paying a bit more for artisanally produced pasta too.
Pasta

Pasta

Le Cordon Bleu

Ravioli, tortellini, fettucini, tagliatelle, spaghetti, cannelloni, discover the variety and sophistication you can find in all the shapes and sizes of pasta with fine recipes to choose from. The secret lies in the ingredients you put in your dish for a fine balance to satisfy the palate. Le Cordon Bleu Master Chefs have created a wonderful selection to suit all tastes and indulge many flavours.
Anna Del Conte on Pasta

Anna Del Conte on Pasta

Anna Del Conte

Anna Del Conte on Pasta' is the revised version of her earlier seminal pasta bible 'Portrait of Pasta' (1976), heralded by Nigella, among others, as the book that changed British attitudes to pasta. The history and regional diversity of traditional pasta recipes is expertly conveyed in Del Conte’s warm friendly tone. Feel free to slurp your way through this taste of Italy.
Pasta Italian Style

Pasta Italian Style

Patricia Lousada

Published in 1991, this recipe collection by Patricia Lousada runs the gamut, from basics such as how to cook pasta and explaining pasta shapes, to recipes for regional dishes such as Bucatini all’Amatriciana. Part of the UK supermarket Sainsbury’s series of cookbooks, the popular Italian recipes make delicious first courses and light meals. However, you can easily turn them into more substantial dishes by increasing the quantities.
The Authentic Pasta Book

The Authentic Pasta Book

Fred Plotkin

The Authentic Pasta Book has come to be seen as a repository of the diversity and ingenious simplicity of the ways Italians use fresh and dried pasta. Is the pasta as presented here authentic? Difficult to say. But what is absolutely authentic is the love and passion about this food that was imparted to me by hundreds of wonderful Italians who became my family. When you make their recipes as found in this book, they become your family too.

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A Whisper of Cardamom

Eleanor Ford

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"Gingerbread is a broad term, warmly embracing everything from crisp biscuits to darkly sticky cakes. Across centuries and across Europe it has taken many delicious guises, the only prerequisites being sweetness and spice - and the spice doesn’t even have to include ginger. British gingerbreads, with all their many regional variations, tend to lead with it; in Dutch speculaas it falls into second place to other sweet spices; whilst French pain d’epices omits it entirely in favour of aniseed, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon. Scandinavian renditions usually have a pepper or cardamom edge, giving them names like pepparkakor. For these spicy little numbers (pictured), I have taken inspiration, for the shape at least, from the gingerbread hearts given as favours at Germany’s Oktoberfest. They are slightly soft, very spicy and exceptionally good." Eleanor Ford

Author spotlight

Fred Plotkin

Fred Plotkin

Fred Plotkin is an expert on Italian opera and Italian food. Having lived in Italy for much of the 1970s, his cookery books convey his passion for and understanding of Italian food and its regional variations. The Authentic Pasta book, orignally published in 1989 in the US, is a classic on the subject.

Roberta Hall McCarron

Roberta Hall McCarron

Scottish chef Roberta Hall McCarron presides of a centre of culinary excellence in Leith, with her restaurants The Little Chartroom, Eleanore and wine bar Artdern. She is well known for her TV appearances on Sunday Brunch and Great British Menu. The Changing Tides is her first book, bringing recipes from her restaurants and those she loves to cook at home.

David Joachim

David Joachim

Multi-award-winning food writer David Joachim has authored, edited or collaborated on more than 40 cookbooks. He has worked with a culinary Who's Who of chefs and food professionals, on subjects across the kitchen – from pasta, to pork to pastry.

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