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Pasta: Recipes Techniques (Cooking Arts Collection)
Pasta Recipes Techniques - Cooking Arts Collection Author:Julia Della Croce You need great recipes and the proper techniques to make great pasta. As a serious student of Italian gastronomical habits, I am familiar with the endless beguiling recipes for pasta that exist from one end of the Italian peninsula to the other. No matter where one goes in Italy, wherever one encounters pasta, whether in the superb h... more »ome cooking of local peoples or in restaurants, a plate of pasta is almost always delectable. Sauces are inevitably a combination of the season's most glorious ingredients combined simply but adroitly with the theme aromatics of the Italian kitchen. Complex pasta concoctions, lasagne al forno and such, or stuffed pasta shapes, are devised with the same fine hand that has made Italian craftsmanship renowned the world over. A plate of pasta is nothing less than a culinary ode to Italy's culturally complex and richly embroidered past of Etruscan and Greek forebears, Saracen invaders, Spanish, Bourbon or Austro-Hungarian kingdoms, and a multiplicity of other foreign influences, wrought with an amalgam of native and New World ingredients.
This book describes what I consider to be the world's best way with pasta, the Italian way. Simply no one cooks pasta like the Italians. The recipes in this book are the result of a lifetime absorbing the Italian way with food. Some are strictly classical dishes, interpreted in my own way, but more are my own innovations. Others came from friends and colleagues. All are based in the classic Italian approach, even if executed with a creative hand. Thus a butter sauce for pumpkin tortelli may be infused with cardamom, a most un-Italian flavoring, or saffron may tint a traditional broth.
It is my goal to tempt my readers with delicious recipes, and to teach how to cook pasta properly so that even the most simple dish, prepared the Italian way, can be experienced to its ultimate.« less
ISBN-13: 9781581590487 ISBN-10: 1581590482 Publication Date: 1997 Pages:168 Edition:1st American ed Rating: