JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE A stylish transporting pasta master class from New York City s
premier pasta chef with recipes for 40 handmade pasta shapes and 100 Italian American
regional Italian and modern dishesIACP AWARD FINALIST Missy Robbins brings her extraordinary
knowledge and generous heart to teach us to prepare the pastas that made her restaurants Lilia
and Misi two of the best in the world. Ina Garten Barefoot ContessaONE OF THE TEN BEST
COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle Boston Globe ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE
YEAR: Minneapolis Star Tribune Glamour Food52 Epicurious Food trends come and go but pasta
holds strong year after year. Despite its humble ingredients made of merely flour and water or
flour and eggs the magic rituals and art of pasta making span over five centuries. Two
ingredients are turned into hundreds of stuffed rolled extruded dried stamped and hand-cut
shapes each with its own unique provenance and enrobed in a favored sauce. New York City chef
Missy Robbins fell in love with Italian food and pasta twenty-five years ago. She has been
cooking researching and studying her way across Italy ever since which led her to open two
of America s most renowned pasta restaurants Lilia and Misi. With illustrated step-by-step
recipes for handmaking forty of the most versatile pasta shapes and one hundred recipes for
Italian American regional Italian and Robbins s own best pasta dishes plus two dozen
vegetable sides this is the hard-working manual for home cooks who aspire to master the art of
pasta cooking. Whether making pasta sheets for lasagna or stamping out pasta coins for Corzetti
with Goat Cheese and Asparagus or even buying handmade pasta to make Tagliatelle with Porcini
Rosemary and Garlic Robbins provides all the inspiration instruction and encouragement
required to make pasta exceptionally well. Evocatively photographed with nearly 100 full-color
mouthwatering photos of pasta dishes and twenty images from Italy this is a richly illustrated
ode to the ingredients recipes and craft that have made pasta the most popular fare of a
beloved cuisine.
