Customer Reviews

The Pasta Bible: The Definitive Sourcebook, With Over 1,000 Illustrations

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This is an absolutely essential book for anyone who loves pasta. It is packed with wonderful color photos. The recipes are delicious. Some are quite involved and require exotic ingredients.

Being so much more than a cookbook, it starts out with a brief history of pasta. It then discusses grain in detail. Pictures of each flour type & an illustration of a wheat grain are included here. There are also pictures all the of pasta tools.

Next, dry pasta is covered. There are great photos of over 125 different pastas, including Asian noodles. It also demonstrates step by step how to make, & shape fresh pasta doughs from scratch.

I loved the inclusion of colored, flavored pastas. The sweet pastas including chocolate noodles are divine. Other great recipes focused on pasta sauces, soups, dumplings, gnocchi, baked pastas and stuffed dishes.

I love this book. It explain how to make pasta from scatch and how to make many differt flavor of pasta. I got a pasta machine for Christmas and these recipes work great for my pasta machine

The beginning to the experienced pasta maker will benefit from this book. Large, clearly printed, well outlined and containing lots of photos of the recipes, this book also has the "cooking school" format that has step by step photos. A entire chapter is devoted to dried pasta with photos of the different shapes. Never wonder what casereccie, banane, or grimigna are again! With this book, you will know! Imaginative use of fresh herbs pressed in sheets of pasta, cuisines from Italian to the Orient (and points in between), baked, stuffed, desserts, this book has enough ideas and recipes to get you started and keep you busy.

My sister-in-law gave me a hand crank pasta machine lately and since I had never made pasta before I purchased this book. The rave reviews gave me the impression that I would be able to learn about pasta, how to make pasta, the techniques of making pasta etc...and I was very dissapointed. The book had more recipes in it than it did information about pasta, and the recipes dont even look that great. I made raviolli from the book tonight, first time using the book, and first time making home made pasta, and honestly, had the book provided more information about actually MAKING pasta then I might be more satisfied. I havent found anything better than this book as of yet, but I am incredibly dissapointed. My reccomendation is if your looking for recipes and a brief history about pasta, then this book is great, if your trying to learn how to make pasta, pasta basics, techniques etc...then keep looking.

Great illustrations, clear instructions, & lots of recipes. What more could anyone ask for?

Good service on the delivery of the book. The book itself has nice ideas for sauces and simple pasta dishes. The one problem I have with the book is the pasta recipes, they all come up short on the moisture content within the recipes, and I'm not talking about a tablespoon of water , its more like a half of a cup or in the spatzle recipe a cup. So in each instance I had to play around with the moisture amount to get the desired pasta consistancy.

I bought the book to learn about the basics of making home made pasta for the first time on a hand crank pasta machine but I found the book to be slim on technical information like how to use a hand crank machine and any tips and tricks. It didn't even tell me how many times to run the pasta sheets through the machine at which settings - which most recipes don't either which creates confusion. Therefore, this beautiful book is more like a museum of pasta rather than a manual for users. The recipes included might prove to be useful but weren't super unusual at first glance. I regret not buying the Cook's Illustrated Pasta book instead - I have a hunch it would have gone through the steps of actually using the machine point by point. But I fell for the color pictures in this book. I don't regret buying it but buyer beware.

History, recipie, and skills all shown and done beautifully. THis is a great book.

Excellent descriptions with vivid pictures. Takes you step by step, includes materials for a beginner and someone more advanced. I can see myself using this for many, many years to come!

I read the entire book in a day before I used my new pasta machine. The book is inspiring as to various pasta dough recipes (very colorful), as well as pasta meals. Worth every penny.