num_pages: 272
description: Award-winning chef Marc Vetri wanted to write his first book about pasta. Instead he wrote two other acclaimed cookbooks and continued researching pasta for ten more years. Now the respected master of Italian cuisine finally shares his vast knowledge of pasta gnocchi and risotto in this inspiring informative primer featuring expert tips and techniques and more than 100 recipes.Vetris personal stories of travel and culinary discovery in Italy appear alongside his easy-to-follow detailed explanations of how to make and enjoy fresh handmade pasta. Whether youre a home cook or a professional youll learn how to make more than thirty different types of pasta dough from versatile egg yolk dough to extruded semolina dough to a variety of flavored pastasand form them into shapes both familiar and unique. In dishes ranging from classic to innovative Vetri shares his coveted recipes for stuffed pastas baked pastas and pasta sauces. He also shows you how to make light-as-air gnocchi and the perfect dish of risotto. Loaded with useful information including the best way to cook and sauce pasta suggestions for substituting pasta shapes and advance preparation and storage notes Mastering Pasta offers you all of the wisdom of a pro. For cooks who want to take their knowledge to the next level Vetri delves deep into the science of various types of flour to explain pastas uniquely satisfying texture and how to craft the very best pasta by hand or with a machine. Mastering Pasta is the definitive work on the subject and the only book you will ever need to serve outstanding pasta dishes in your own kitchen.
language: English
title: Mastering Pasta: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pasta, Gnocchi, and Risotto [A Cookbook]
publisher: Ten Speed Press