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

~ 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

Since her highly successful PBS television series, Lorenza de¹Medici¹s name in America has become synonymous with fine Italian cooking. The author of numerous best-selling books, she also runs a prestigious cooking school in Tuscany. Now, in Lorenza¹s Pasta ‹ winner of a James Beard Award for Excellence ‹ she presents 200 favorite recipes.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Pavilion Books (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1862050392
• ISBN-13: 978-1862050396
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #384,474 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)

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

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

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

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.