This title features fabulous pasta sauces, starters, salads and soups, shown in over 300 step-by-step photographs. It presents a combination of traditional dishes, regional specialities, and original recipe ideas. It guides you through each stage of preparation with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions. It features classic recipes such as Penne all' Arrabbiata and Minestone Soup, as well as contemporary ideas such as Paglia e Fieno with Prawns and Vodka, and Tagliatelle with Radicchio and Cream. It includes guidelines on how to cook pasta to perfection, with tips on how to eat it, how to match shapes to sauces, and how to serve. This superb book is a truly comprehensive guide to choosing, cooking and enjoying Italian pasta. The introductory identification section contains fabulous photographs and fascinating information on a huge range of dried and fresh pasta types, including long and short varieties as well as flavoured and colored pasta. There is also a fully illustrated technique section showing how to cook and serve pasta, and how to choose the right pasta for your sauce. The book features more than 100 inspirational recipes for pasta sauces, salads and soups, encompassing all kinds of pasta.

A comprehensive identification guide contains close-up photographs of the huge range of dried and fresh pasta types, including long, short and flat varieties; shapes for soup and stuffing; and unusual designer shapes. Each is accompanied by information on its origins, the various forms and names, and traditional sauces. The illustrated techniques section guides you through the secrets of making, cooking and serving pasta. There are useful tips on how to eat it, matching shapes to sauces, and which wines to choose. An enticing collection presents classics, regional specialities and contemporary ideas, with recipes for every kind of dish.

This superb book is a comprehensive guide to choosing, making, cooking and enjoying Italian pasta. It features 150 classic and original recipes from simple yet robust soups to fresh and healthy salads, and from rich and warming bakes and casseroles to delicately stuffed pasta parcels. There is also a pictorial guide to all the key ingredients. The recipe section is a triumphant combination of classic regional dishes and original, contemporary ideas, including shellfish lasagne, tortellini with ham, and spaghetti with artichokes. This is a kitchen guide, sourcebook, reference manual and recipe collection - a perfect resource for every pasta-lover.

Fish and seafood are a healthy, versatile and delicious choice, and to prove that cooking with these ingredients doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming, the team at BBC Good Food Magazine have collected their favourite recipes for Good Food 101 Fish & Seafood Dishes. You'll never be stuck for ideas with these tasty, easy recipes, from Smoked Salmon and Dill Tartlets to Spicy Singaporean Fish, in chapters that include Simple Everyday Suppers, Easy Entertaining, Healthy & Low-Fat and Asian Flavours. As each recipe is accompanied by a full-page colour photograph and step-by-step instructions, creating delicious fish and seafood dishes in your own kitchen has never been so simple.