Spaghetti Dinner Author:Giuseppe Prezzolini This is a most unusual cookbook. Although it has many delightful recipes for all types of spaghetti dishes and will be most useful and pleasurable addition to the cookbook shelf, it is also a valuable reference book for all those who are interested in historical background-even if they don't own a stove! The first half of the book is devoted to... more » the history of spaghetti eating and spaghetti cooking. There are 26 illustrations for this section-some of them going back to the fifteenth century. In the recipe section, there are recipes from all over the world, including some very old Italian and Regional Italian ones, recipes used by Americans of foreign descent, recipes used by popes and presidents, recipes recommended by food editors,and the best American cookbooks.« less