Product Description

Following the success of the international best-seller, The Silver Spoon, this is the ultimate book on pasta, featuring 350 classic and modern recipes from the same team behind the Italian classic. The recipes in The Silver Spoon: Pasta are easy to follow and fully explained for American home cooks, and include some of the most popular pasta dishes from The Silver Spoon, along with hundreds of brand new recipes collected by the same team and published in English here for the first time.

The Silver Spoon: Pasta offers detailed descriptions and cooking tips for both dried and fresh pasta and instruction on the traditional art of combining various pasta shapes with the right sauces. Featuring specially commissioned photographs and illustrations, its simple format makes it both accessible and a pleasure to read and use. Recipes include favorites such as Spaghetti Carbonara, Bucatini with Fried Bread Crumbs, Three-Color Ricotta Lasagna, Bow Ties with Smoked Pancetta, Tagliatelle with Sage and Tarragon Chicken Sauce, Shells with Gorgonzola and Pistachios and Chanterelle and Thyme Ravioli. Whether you are feeding the family, cooking for one, or preparing an elaborate dinner party, The Silver Spoon: Pasta has the perfect dish for every day of the year.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1388 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Inspired by Pasta
Devastated by the demise of "Gourmet" magazine (my source of gastronomical inspiration), I've been trying to find solace in cookbooks, new and old. The release of Phaidon's Silver Spoon Pasta could not have come at a better time. Looking at the spare, elegant layout and plentiful pictures, I felt that old kitchen fever that "Gourmet" always gave me. But even "Gourmet" never inspired me to make my own pasta. From scratch. Without a machine, the way I picture old Italian ladies doing it. It takes some muscle, but Silver Spoon Pasta, with its no-nonsense, plain and simple directions, made me believe I could do it.

And... I could. Within the course of a weekend, I made the maltagliati with bell peppers, the orecchiette with oven-roasted tomatoes, and the spaghetti with olives and lemon. Maybe I'm on a carbohydrate high, but I'm a big fan of this cookbook. It is somehow both minimalistic and sensuous, with color photos of the pasta dishes on almost every other page. Many of the recipes call for less than 10 ingredients, and the simplicity and specificity of the ingredients and methods is a beautiful thing. Every recipe I've tried has been delicious.

The book is organized in two sections, dried pasta (both long and short) and fresh pasta (cut and filled). Each section is then organized by pasta type, with an overview and recipes appropriate for that type of pasta. There are classics, like Spaghetti Carbonara, as well as less common dishes: fettuccine with orange blossom, mezze maniche with creamy garbanzo bean sauce, pumpkin lasagna. Never heard of them, but I am now committed to making them, as soon as possible.