Portrait of Pasta Author:Anna Del Conte If all the pasta eaten in one year in Italy alone was laid end to end, it would make a string of spaghetti that would go 12,626 times around the work, or to the moon and back 639 times. — Pasta has been eaten and celebrated for centuries throughout the world. It has inspired such people as Cicero, Marco Polo, Byron, Fiorello LaGuardia and many gr... more »eat cooks including Anna Del Conte herself. She has complied an illustrated history of this marvellous food as well as more than 100 of her favorite pasta recipes.
Pasta is nourishing, nonfattening, inexpensive and surprisingly easy to prepare. Here are delicious sauces, pasticci, new recipes and recipes from the past (including one of Horace's favorite dishes), and step-by-step instructions for making your own fresh pasta at home.« less