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Encyclopedia of Pasta (California Studies in Food and Culture, 26)
"Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati"--pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety of shapes it takes and the even greater abundance of names by wh...more
Hardcover, 374 pages
Published
October 1st 2009
by University of California Press
(first published 2009)
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This is not entirely what I expected! What I expected was an identification guide of sorts of the various types of pasta along with recipes to use. What I discovered was "Traditional Italian Pasta Shapes A to Z" and no recipes.
Each pasta lists its American name and then it's Italian name. Also provided are ingredients, how made, aka(s), how served, where found and remarks. These remarks may be a small paragraph as with Pannicelli to a few paragraphs as with Pappardelle to a...more
Each pasta lists its American name and then it's Italian name. Also provided are ingredients, how made, aka(s), how served, where found and remarks. These remarks may be a small paragraph as with Pannicelli to a few paragraphs as with Pappardelle to a...more
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