Customer Reviews

Pasta: William Sonoma Collection

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When I first received this book I pretty much read it from cover to cover. It's a delight. Each recipe has a corresponding full-page photo. Further, a pertinent, and what I found to be enlightening, piece of information is included as a sidenote with each recipe. I wrote down 11 recipes that I plan to try -- more typically two, maybe three, is the number of recipes that I will make from any one cookbook. Anyhow, I have made the bolognese sauce w/ fresh egg pasta and it was excellent. The entire family loved it! The sections are well thought out and can be used as a guide to what you need. Want something fast? Quick Suppers. Something tried & true? the Classics. There were several terrific sounding recipes under Elegant Entertaining. Great to look at, fun to read, and well-chosen recipes. It's a keeper.

This book has great pasta recipes. The fettuccine alfredo is too good for words. This book keeps in line with the series -- well-written recipes, beautiful photos of every dish.

The pasta basics section has good advice on fresh pasta. I wish it would have included info on making it with a food processor. I think that's covered in the new Mastering series from WS, which is billed as more technique than recipe.

This is an excellent book for the home chef. It has recipes that even the most timid beginner can sucessfuly (and effortlessly) complete.

It is beautifully photographed. The recipes are concise and easy to follow.

I love the informative sidenotes that accompany each recipe. A beginning cook can learn a lot from reading them.

I recommend this book for all cooks.

The recipes in this book are very good, and this book is a great place to start if you don't know many pasta recipes yet. It covers many classic dishes, so several of the recipes are not unique to this book. Each of the dishes is nicely photographed.

You have to be careful with Williams-Sonoma: they have two different series of nice hardbound books. The huge, thick ones (e.g. Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Baking: Recipes and Techniques for Succcessful Home Baking), and these smaller, thinner ones, also hardbound but with far fewer recipes.

This is one of the thinner ones.

The thinner ones can be identified -- at least on Amazon -- because they'll be part of the "William-Sonoma Collection," whereas the huge books will be titled "Essentials of . . . "

This book is for novice cooks and discusses different types of pasta (spaghetti vs. fettuccini) and the recipes are pretty quick using boxed pasta and readily available ingredients.

A great cook book! Although i find a lot of williams-sonoma cookbooks to be a little thin, they always pack gorgeous photos with recipes you can usually trust. This is no exception. I made a double portion of penne a la vodka, without having tried it out previously, for a potluck yesterday. Rave reviews! Definitely a keeper.

Update: I've made many more things from this book, and they've all come out wonderfully. Recommend!

The photos are lovely, and the recipes are quite straightforward. A nice "pasta" cookbook.