The Classic Pasta Cookbook

by Giuliano Hazan

Over the last few years the image of pasta has changed fresh pasta shops have sprung up, pasta-making machines have appeared in department stores and supermarket chains have begun to stock an increasing number of different kinds of pasta. Pasta is now enjoying great success as a fashionable and convenient food that has the added bonus of being healthy. This cookbook shows how to cook pasta the way "mamma made it". Recipes range from the traditional to the modern, from the simple to the complex. "The Classic Pasta Cookbook" sets out to explain everything about this popular food and its preparation, containing over 100 traditional and modern recipes, and dozens of quick, easy-to-prepare dishes. The author has taught at his mother's school of Classic Italian Cooking in Bologna and lectured on Italian food for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference, Italian Literature

Hardcover

First published September 15, 1993

Reviews

[Jeffrey Caston · Rating 4 out of 5]

This humble little pasta cookbook is a real find. It has been my go-to pasta cookbook for decades. It covers such a wide variety of topics, including making your own homemade pasta from scratch, how to use the wide variety of shapes and simple recipes for classic sauces and preparation. I love the pesto recipe. I have spurned all other supposed preparations for fettucine alla'fredo. The carbonara makes for a very satisfying dinner when my wife and I make it. I recently delved into one that was so absurdly simple, but so good, roasted pepper cream sauce with smoked salmon flaked in. Tossed with farfalle and I had the best lunch I've had in a long time.

Highly recommend this one.

[Blaine DeSantis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just a wonderful book. Being Italian I have well over 100 different Italian Cookbooks and this is one of the easiest to read and use. Wonderful graphics, very good recipes and if you had to choose only 1 cookbook on pasta this one is the definite winner. Hazan and his mother are great Italian cooks and this book is brimming with mouthwatering photos and recipe. All I can say is, "Mangia, Mangia!"

[Wintergal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have an extensive cookbooks collection, and this one is my favourite for pasta. I have cooked halfway through it, and haven't found a recipe we didn't like at all. Sometimes I make notes like "too mild for us" or "would be better with less or more cream", but tastes differ, and all the recipes you need to mold into your family's form. But in this book the quantity of corrections is minimum. I love the idea of how the ingredients are presented, and wish all the recipes would have this photo accompaniment - as a visual, I find it so much easier to understand the recipe when I see it. Probably, this is the one minus I can find - some recipies are just the text, sometimes with the photo of the prepared dish. The substitutes for pasta types are helpful too.

[G.G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

True confession: this is the only cookbook by a man I've ever owned. And it's good, too: beautiful to look at and easy to cook from. Giuliano Hazan can even make the humble cauliflower into a great pasta sauce! Try his Penne with Cauliflower, Tomatoes, and Cream and see what I mean.

[Juli Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why have I never heard of this classic until stumbling onto it in a particularly dusty library corner? In this book, you'll find clear, complete information about types of pasta, how to make it at home, classic and innovative sauce recipes AND adorable photos of the author holding up platters of pasta like a proud Papa. I will be ordering a copy of this for my personal library.

[Ted Way · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite is a simple pasta with garlic and olive oil. This book tells you all you need to know about pasta types, shapes, and sauces.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

a good gift for anyone who is starting to cook. plus the pictures of hazan is in red glasses make me smile.

[Meg Quinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best pasta cookbook ever.

[Heather Key · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have used this cookbook for years. Jason and I used it often and I made my first fancy dish Tonnarelli al Gamberi e Funghi. so good so fattening.

[Lucía Mora · Rating 5 out of 5]

hago pasta de puta madre gracias a esto