The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces: The Best Italian Pestos, Marinaras, Ragus, and Other Cooked and Fresh Sauces for Every Type of Pasta Imaginable

Allan Bay, an expat who lives in Rome, has written some of Italy's best-selling cookbooks. He has written The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces, which includes 175 recipes for the best and yummiest pasta sauces imaginable. The sauces are easy to prepare and cook up fast, and include asparagus and pine nut sauce, meatball ragout, cioppino, pesto sauce, chicken ragout, nantua sauce with shrimp, lamb ragout with porcinis, and Roman cauliflower sauce. Each recipe comes with one to three "Best On" recommendations, as well as additional "Also Good On" ideas for different shapes of standard wheat pasta, egg noodles, polenta, rice, and more.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 18 October 2022
Publisher: Harvard Common Press,U.S.

Everybody adores pasta, but not if it is prepared in the same manner night after night. Families with children, in particular, consume a lot of pasta, but it's all too simple to fall into a "red sauce rut," eating one version or another of marinara sauce over and over again. Enter author Allan Bay, an expat who resides in Rome and has written some of Italy's best-selling cookbooks. Bay opens up in these pages a vast, bold new world of pasta sauces, some from the classic Italian repertoire, other brilliant new creations of his own. They have all sorts of main ingredients, from beef and chicken to shrimp and clams to glorious veggies from artichokes to zucchini. All of the sauces are easy to prepare and cook up fast.

The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces includes:

Asparagus and Pine Nut Sauce
Meatball Ragout
Cioppino
Pesto Sauce, plus six different pesto variations
Chicken Ragout
Nantua Sauce with Shrimp
Lamb Ragout with Porcinis
Roman Cauliflower Sauce

There are bowls and bowls of kid-friendly sauces, as well as plenty of grownup sauces. Each recipe comes with one to three "Best On" recommendations, as well as additional "Also Good On" ideas that range from different shapes of standard wheat pasta to egg noodles, polenta, rice, and more. There are suggestions, too, for serving the various sauces directly on meats, poultry, or fish—something that is very common in Italy but less familiar elsewhere.

This deliciously creative book makes pasta and pasta sauces more exciting than they've ever been before.

Weight: 774g
Dimension: 190 x 235 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760376478