Lorenza's Pasta: 200 Recipes for Family and Friends (Hardcover)

~ Lorenza De'Medici (Author)

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De'Medici's erudite, cultured yet personable voice and 50 photographs by Gus Filgate feed the eye and intellect in this handsome cookbook. Related to the Medici's, Lorenza shares profound knowledge of Italian pasta cookery past and present, and in all its regional diversity. Enjoy classics, including Bucatini with Spiced Meat Sauce, with roots in the Renaissance; contemporary dishes like Ravioli with Radicchio; and quintessentially Italian Tortelli with Zucchini Flowers. Kitchen experience helps for coping with a few in accurate conversions of liquid measures (e.g. "2 1/2 pints/6 cups) and the lack of description for what steps should look like when completed.

Product Description

The highly acclaimed author of Italy the Beautiful and The Villa Table--who's also host of the highly successful PBS cooking series The de'Medici Kitchen--now presents what is certain to become the essential pasta cookbook. Written in simple, easy-to-follow language, the book provides an engaging history of pasta and more than 200 fabulous recipes. Glossary. 80 color photos.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1 Amer ed edition (August 27, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517704404
• ISBN-13: 978-0517704400
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,757,117 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book on Pasta, June 28, 2000

By	D. Markatos (New Canaan, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Lorenza's Pasta: 200 Recipes for Family and Friends (Paperback)

Not your classic cookbook; dedicated to pasta, this teaches you about the culture around pasta and all its uses. The instructions on how to make pasta should be more detailed. But everything I have cooked from here has been well received.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Primer in Pasta, April 14, 1998

By A Customer

Beautifully created and photographed, this primer teaches the basics of pasta. With easy to use recipes, simple techniques, the outcome is always tasty. Lorenza's recipe on basic pasta could use a little more description but overall it is a solid book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, May 2, 2007

By	Penne (Gone swimming) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lorenza's Pasta: 200 Recipes for Family and Friends (Paperback)

I used to be suspicious of beautiful cookbooks, not so with Signora De'Medici. Her recipes are reliable and delicious and this book, like her others, is a pleasure to cook from. There is also interesting information on all types of pasta, regional information and reproductions of old images of pasta vendors, pasta makers, pasta wolfers etc. But best of all the recipes are simple, tasty and I've never had one that didn't work out really well.