Cookbook Reviews

Bugialli On Pasta

By Giuliano Bugialli
Simon and Schuster, 1988
ISBN 0-671-62024-X

For a while I had been searching for a definitive cookbook on pasta.
While in Japan, I had tasted a dish called Amatriciana at an Italian restaurant,
which I particularly loved. So searching through pasta cookbooks I went, but no
Amatriciana - those books were useless.

Bugialli On Pasta was definitely written by a man who knows his noodles.
Packed with every known Italian pasta recipe from the North to the South, this book
is full of mouthwatering recipes. While I still yet have to test the book out,
it does have a recipe for Amatriciana.

There are several good features about this book. Bugialli gives the history
and background to many of the dishes he wrote about. Pasta definitions are very
helpful - giving you the difference between tagliatelle and fettucine, for example.
There are, of course, recipes for fresh-made pasta noodles, technique descriptions,
and full-color photos of various dishes.

All-in-all, Bugialli On Pasta is worth the money you spend on it.

Copyright � 1998-2000 J. T. Hill
No reprint without the express permission of author

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