The Top 100 Pasta Sauces [Hardcover]

Diane Seed (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 28, 1987

The Top 100 Pasta Sauces

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Rosendale; 5th edition (August 28, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0950918237
• ISBN-13: 978-0950918235
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking by Ingredient > Pasta

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best pasta cookbook ever!, June 6, 2003

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K. Bourn "bohemiangirlpdx" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Top 100 Pasta Sauces (Hardcover)

A college friend turned me onto Diane Seed's cookbook, otherwise I might have overlooked such a slim volume, thinking that it didn't have much to offer. This little cookbook is packed full of terrific pasta recipes, all organized around the featured vegetable or ingredient: mushrooms, lemon, zucchini, walnuts, peas, spinach, etc. Most recipes are quick and simple to make, requiring only a few ingredients. One of the things I really appreciate about this cookbook is knowing that if I keep a few basic Italian cheeses and other ingredients on hand, I can whip up a really yummy dinner after stopping at the local produce market or farmers market for the fresh vegetables. Several recipes can be prepared with non-perishable items from the pantry, but don't taste like dinner came from a can.

In addition to delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, the illustrations in "Top 100 Pasta Sauces" make it a delight to peruse.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific first pasta cookbook, March 29, 2005

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Amazon fiend "Dave" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Top 100 Pasta Sauces (Hardcover)

wonderful intoduction to Italian pasta; worlds beyond just tomato and meat sauce, good though that may be. Highly, highly recommended: unusual, inventive sauces, many inexpensive and quick, but also several luxurious ones for special occasions or just to try. Thank God it's still in print.

5.0 out of 5 stars my own version of Julie and Julia, January 20, 2012

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Desert Gypsy "A Brooklyn Girl Out West" (Southern Utah, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Top 100 Pasta Sauces (Hardcover)

I encourage you to look up the different versions of this book; paperback, hard cover, no cover and read as many of the reviews as you can to see what people have said about this lovely little volume. For the most part you'll find that this book has been part of peoples daily cooking life for ten years or more and that the people that love it best are ordinary home cooks (some lucky enough to have lived in Italy) that *know* what a prized source of recipes they have here in this unassuming package.

This year I'm going on a culinary journey with this book; I've decided to focus on making recipes from two cook books in 2012 and this is one of them. So far I've read the opening chapters and read through several of the recipes. What I see so far is that the ingredients are entirely manageable as in you probably have four out of five ingredients at home already. The second thing is that they don't take much time or fancy techniques. From the little bit I've read now and from the forecast of the reviews *I* read, I'm very excited to learn to make authentic homemade Italian pasta dishes from Diane Seed.

I'll be updating this review as I go along and try the recipes.