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The Encyclopedia of Sauces for Your Pasta: The Greatest Collection of Pasta Sauces Ever in One Book

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If you can't find a sauce in this book that you will love then, my friend, you must want to have sauces made with crushed flies!

The book is divided into 26 chapters based on the main ingredient for the sauces that you may be lloking for. ie. sauces made from buttur/olive oil; cream and meat or seafood;cream;;nutmeats;tomatoes;tomatoes and meat;uncooked cheese ;vegetrables ... ecte ect

Each of the recepies is clear cut SUPER FAST in most cases ( except the simmering for some sauces) and, MOST IMPORTANT, the author gives us a full list of the ingredient options.

I just made the four cheese sauce and if you can't find the Fontina, Bel Paeze or Gorgonzola cheese the recipie calls for he gives us a list of other cheeses to replace the ones asked for in the ITALIAN recepie. WOW .... you know there are very very few cookbooks with that kind of simple foresight...

I think the book must weigh in at over 500 pages ... has NO pictures (a disadvantage in my book) is all written in large capital lettesr and leaves a section for you to write when you tried the recepie and if you loved it or hated it ...

If you like pasta dishes this book is a MUST buy .........

I have given this cookbook as a gift over and over since the sauces in this book are delicious and most are simple to make. Whenever I have some extra ingrediants I don't want to go to waste, I can always find a sauce to use them in and I have never been disappointed! It is "the greatest collection of pasta sauces ever in one book."

Bellissino has done American cooks a great service. Each chapter features Old-World sauces by ingredients and pasta types. Many vegetarian and meatless sauces, and also a truly "only in America" low-fat tip---use a Chinese wok to saute garlic, onions, etc., to reduce the amount of olive oil and have plenty of room for veggies and sauce! People keep borrowing this book from our kitchen, so we have several! Also a great housewarming gift with a wok and a good bottle of wine!

In an age filled with pasta lovers this book is the essential companion to your supermarkets pasta isle! with an outstanding collection of sauces there is no way that you will ever eat the same dish twice. Perhaps one of the best features is the check list which allows you the oppurtunity to choose for yourself wether or not your family liked it. A true godsend to pasta! Thanks for such a great guide to pasta!

A comprehensive accumulation of pasta sauce recipes if there ever was one. I first saw this book at a local restaurant run by a second-generation Italian owner and figured that was a pretty good recommendation. I was not disappointed. Sure, some of the recipes are minor variations of others in the book, but that does not detract from the amount and usefulness of the selections. If you love to cook and eat pasta this book has to be in your kitchen.

This book is very good for the new cook or the old pro. I got it as a wedding gift but I didn't cook at the time. As I got used to the idea of being in a kitchen this book really helped me out a lot. I know use it a lot and find myself wanting to give it to all new cooks!

I bought this book 10 years ago and have used it time and time again to find quick, easy and tasty sauce recipes for pasta. The book contains so many recipes that I don't think I will ever make even a fraction of them. The best thing about the book is the recipes are listed in the table of contents under the main ingredients so you can easily find for example sauces made from cream which starts on page 3-1. Also, most of the sauce recipes do not require a long list of ingredients so they are easy and inexpensive to make.

So far I've tried a handful of sauces and they've all been winners. I'm less than halfway through the book and i have SO MANY pages marked to try that it will take me the next couple years to get through them all, but I've already recommended this book to a few friends. Everything has been a winner. I tried a sauce with 3 ingredients last night and my picky husband loved it - I really thought I was going to have leftovers for lunch. I'm not a huge fan of marinara sauce, but those are great too. I'm dying to try an anchovy sauce because - hey - everything else is good, so why not?
Very highly recommended.

This book is completely old fashioned, with old ideas of ingredients, portions, methods, etc. Furthermore, THIS BOOK IS LOUD!! WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS!
I paid $1 for this book from Goodwill via Amazon, and I think I wasted 80cents.

This book is just "so-so"
Lots of recipies, but most are just different versions of the basic....
Nothing really spectacular ar that can't be found online for free.