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Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Pasta

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ISBN-10: 0028623304

ISBN-13: 9780028623306

Edition: 1999

Authors: Natalie Danford

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Pasta is so well-known for its ease of preparation, its healthful properties, and its inexpensiveness, that it's easy to forget how versatile it is. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Pasta has sections dedicated to each kind of pasta, with more than 100 recipes ranging from your standard Penne all'Arrabbiata, to more complex dishes like Pappardelle with Veal and Fennel, and Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe. But this is not just an Italian pasta book-recipes with Asian influence include Chicken Lo Mein and Udon with Sesame Sauce. With more than 100 recipes for the noodles themselves, soups, pasta salads, and much more, the book offers practical tips along with bits of food history. The…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/24/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 287
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

If You Knew Pasta Like I Know Pasta
Living in the Pasta
Who Invented the Noodle? It's a Slippery Question
Macaroni Madness
The Simple Secrets of Cooking Pasta
Water Water Everywhere
Expanding Pasta's Horizons
Get Potted
The Non-Ingredient Ingredients
Rock of Ages
Acqua: Water
Taking the Plunge
Per Cucinare la Pasta Corta: Cooking Short Pasta
Per Cucinare la Pasta Lunga: Cooking Long Pasta
Per Cucinare la Pasta Fatta in Casa: Cooking Homemade Pasta
Your Everyday Noodle
A Special Flour
Pasta Production
Branded for Life
Made in the USA: Is American Pasta Really Superior?
Artisanal Pasta
To Your Health
What Shape Is Your Noodle?
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
The Parmesan Question: It Doesn't Make Everything Better
The Birth of Parmesan
What's Up, D.O.C.?
Making the Big Cheese
Picking Parmesan
Making a Home for Cheese
Putting Parmesan to Work
Eat It Raw
Altri Formaggi: Other Cheeses
Get Cooking
Saucy
Olive Oil: More Than Just Popeye's Girlfriend
Olive Oil: An Amazing Fruit Juice
It's Ancient History
We Do as the Romans Did
The Oliver Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
An Oil to Avoid
Dubious Virginity
Go the Extra Mile
You Can See Clearly
Color Me Green or Mellow Yellow
Under Pressure
What Price Virginity?
How to Keep a Virgin Happy
Pour Away!
Say "Olive You" to Your Body
Get Cooking
Oil: The Quickest and Easiest Italian Pasta Dishes
To Market, To Market
The Perfect Foil for Oil
So Simple, So Good
You Say Tomato
The Golden Apple
Off the Vine
Off the Shelf
Peel a Meal
What a Strain!
The Plot Thickens
Off Your Stove
More Than One Way to Skin a Tomato
Don't Strain Yourself
Pastabilites
The Mother of All Pasta Sauces
Know Your Tomatoes
On the Burner
Planning Ahead
Methods for Tomato Sauces
Cream Sauces: The Most Luxurious of Italian Dishes
He Ain't Heavy
Cream's No Crime
Cream Dreams
Pasta + Soup = Comfort2
Pasta Goes for a Swim
Savory Italian Soups
Brilliant Broth
Full of Beans
Soup Secrets
Recipes
Something in the Oven: Baked Pasta
Baking without Shaking
Baked Pasta Equipment
Lovin' the Oven
Rolling Your Own
Fresh Pasta: Why Go to All This Trouble?
A Place Pasta Calls Home
Are You My Pasta?
There's Nothing Like Homemade
Noodling Around
Pasta Overboard!
Stuff It
Baked and Bountiful
The Outsiders
You Are a Pasta Machine
Arming Yourself for the Pasta Battle
Getting Cranky
Man and Machine
Pasta Robots
What's Out There?
How Does It Work?
Egging Ourselves On
Le Uova: Eggs
Size Does Matter!
Making the Grade
Incredible and Edible, Too
La Farina: Flour
Measure for Measure
L'Impasto: The Dough
In the Palm of Your Hand: Mixing and Kneading Pasta Dough
Extras! Extras!
La Sfoglia: The Sheet
Pinning It Down
Flat as a Board
Tagliare: Cutting
The Kindest Cut
Smooth as Pasta?
Extrude, Dude
Saving Pasta for a Rainy Day
A Few Recipes for Fresh Pasta
Filling Out: Stuffed Italian Pastas
Tricks of the Trade
Other Handmade Pasta
The Runners-Up
A Nod to Various Italian Noodles
Asian Noodles
A Pan-Asian Panorama
An Asian Fantasia
Noodles Go Soft
Boiling Noodles
Boiling Noodles to Be Stir-Fried
Boiling Japanese Noodles
Soaking Noodles
Frying Noodles
Browning Noodles
Reheating Asian Noodles
Keep It Flexible
How to Stir-Fry
Noodles in Chinese Cooking
More Than Lo Mein: Chinese Noodles
Going for a Wok
Chinese Chewables
Serenity in a Bowl: Japanese Noodles
Soba, So Good
You Do Udon
That's Not All, Folks
Bow Down to Noodles
Everybody's Got a Noodle
Thai Me Up
Slurping It Up: Noodles from Other Asian Countries
Vietnamese Victuals
Philippines
Indonesia
Malaysia
Strange Food in a Strange Land
No Longer Greek to You
Laid Back Greek Pasta
Greek Eats
The French Do It, The Germans Do It, Even The Spanish Do It
Cleverly Continental
Provencal, But Not Provincial
A Kreplach By Any Other Name.... Ashkenazic Jewish Noodles
A History of Movement
Is It Kosher?
Ashkenazic Pasta
The Couscous Coup: North Africa's Pasta
Couscous: Pasta or Grain?
Couscous Concoctions
Ingenuity Strikes: Pasta in the United States
Pasta, American Style
Amber Waves of Grain
Yankee Doodle Style
Stuck a Feather in His Hat and Called It What?
Pasta By Special Delivery: Mail-Order Sources
Kitchen Tools and Techniques
Additional Sources
Index