While the Pasta Cooks: 100 Sauces So Easy You Can Prepare the Sauce in the Time It Takes to Cook the Pasta [Hardcover]

Andrew Schloss (Author), Ken Bookman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1996

100 pasta dishes that can be prepared in the time it takes to cook the pasta

While the Pasta Cooks is the ultimate book for pasta lovers in a hurry. Every pasta sauce in the book (100 recipes in all) can be prepared in the time it takes to bring the water to a boil and cook the pasta -- about 20 minutes or less.

The authors believe that by cutting down on cooking time, you improve the taste of your food. For example, fresh herbs like basil and oregano are added just before the sauce is completed, adding much more flavor than using dried herbs.

Pasta has been one of the most popular topics in food for the past several years because it is so affordable, versatile, and nutritious, but no cookbook has been written before with such an eye for saving time in the kitchen.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

In the time it takes the water to boil and the pasta to cook, you can whip up these scintillating sauces that will turn your warmed Ragu and flaccid pasta meals into gastronomic events. Try Tomato Sauce with Hot Pepper Vodka and Cream, Sardine and Olive Sauce, and Stir-fried Broccoli and Walnut Sauce.

From Library Journal

This is not the first quick-and-easy pasta book, but it's the only one with such a surefire title. Schloss and Bookman have other clever concepts to their credit, including One-Pot Cakes (LJ 8/85) and Fifty Ways To Cook Most Everything (LJ 9/15/92). Here they offer simple and appealing recipes for pasta with sauces from Tomato Mint Vinaigrette to Everyday Meat Sauce to Wild Mushroom Persillade. Recommended for larger collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference; First Edition edition (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028609891
• ISBN-13: 978-0028609898
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #527,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Andy Schloss wants everyone to cook more, and he has devoted his career to ease the way. As a well known teacher, food writer, cookbook author, and food product developer, he concentrates his decades of experience to streamline the tedious and illuminate the intricacies that make cooking good food a pleasure and a passion. Andy has authored 17 cookbooks and countless food articles. His first book Fifty Ways to Cook Most Everything was a Book of the Month Club Main Selection. The Science of Good Food (co-authored with David Joachim) won an IACP Cookbook Award, and their book, Mastering the Grill was a NYT bestseller. His latest books Fire It Up, a follow-up grilling guide written with Joachim and Homemade Soda are being published in the Spring of 2011. Schloss is the culinary creator of Cookulus: Ultimate Recipe apps, and the developer and manufacturer of the popular line of seasoning blends, Chef Salt. He is a past president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, Karen, and their incredibly well-fed dog.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite cookbook with only one fault ..., November 22, 2002

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Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: While the Pasta Cooks: 100 Sauces So Easy You Can Prepare the Sauce in the Time It Takes to Cook the Pasta (Hardcover)

First of all this book ain't cheap so I was rather disgusted that if you exclude the cover it contained not one single picture .... OK so it may be hard to take a picture of pasta sauce bubbling in a skillet but .....

Now for the good part ... recepies in this book are stupendous and many are quite unique with some equisite new flavours for pasta sauce that I think I've been making for over 30 years or so.

Although the book is titled 'while the pasta cooks' and its true that all the sauces are whipped together in a pan or wok the intriguing flavours presented by the authors usually will require some planning and a stop at your local supermarket ....

The flavours presented in many of these recepies are so unique, do not fall into the tempatation to either skip or subsitiute ingredients because the simplicity of the recepies makes them very very unique .... nuff said ...

Appart from my whining about the pictures this is one great cookbook ....

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great variety, easy prep, good sauces, August 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: While the Pasta Cooks: 100 Sauces So Easy You Can Prepare the Sauce in the Time It Takes to Cook the Pasta (Hardcover)

I can't believe this book is out of print! It is a great cookbook to have around, because the sauces are so quick to prepare. I've also found the recipes very forgiving, if you don't have exactly the same ingredients.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for busy people., August 1, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: While the Pasta Cooks: 100 Sauces So Easy You Can Prepare the Sauce in the Time It Takes to Cook the Pasta (Hardcover)

This is a great cookbook for those who do not enjoy spending all day in the kitchen, but who still want a great meal. I have enjoyed every recipe that I have tried