Books : Williams-Sonoma Mastering: Pasta, Noodles & Dumplings: made easy with step-by-step photographs (Williams Sonoma Mastering)
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.822
EAN num: 9780743267342
ISBN number: 0743267346
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 144
Printing Date: November 01, 2005
Publishing house: Free Press
Sale Popularity Level: 468834
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Savory Spaghetti Carbonara tossed with bits of pancetta, Spinach Lasagna layered with a long-simmered ragù, Gnocchi Gratin crowned with cheese and bread crumbs, sweet-and-spicy Thai noodles -- these are among the classic pasta, noodle, and dumpling recipes you will soon master with this book.
Williams-Sonoma Mastering Pasta, Noodles & Dumplings is a complete cooking course in a single volume. The opening describes the different types of fresh and dried pastas, dumplings, and Asian noodles available and the ingredients used to make them. You will also learn how to cook, season, and serve pasta, from reading your mise en place to adding restaurant-style finishing touches.
Basic recipes and key techniques then illustrate dozens indispensable culinary building blocks, such as how to judge when a pasta dough is mixed just right or how to dice an onion with ease. Troubleshooting tips show you what can go wrong and how to fix it without having to start all over again. Next the master recipes lead you step-by-step, with friendly text and instructive photographs, through every stage of preparation. These recipes include helpful advice other cookbooks assume you already know, and explain how to taste and season a dish as you go -- one of the most valuable kitchen secrets you can learn. The shorter recipes and variations in each chapter encourage you to continue practicing your newfound skills, building your repertory and your confidence at the same time. Finally, a guide to equipment and a glossary of ingredients round out your comprehensive pasta-making course.
In these pages, you will discover more than fifty classic recipes that tell you, in both pictures and words, how every dish you make should look and taste from beginning to end. Whether you are an aspiring novice or an accomplished home cook, Mastering Pasta, Noodles, and Dumplings is an invaluable source for the tricks, tips, and insider knowledge that, until now, you could learn only in cooking class.
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This review is written from the perspective of a serious home cook that has been studying cooking for 25 years and concentrating on Italian cooking for the last 10 years.
This book is targeted to beginning pasta makers. If you are a skilled pasta maker, there is nothing new in this book. However, if you are new to pasta this book is well done. The directions are well written and the photos of various stages of pasta production as also well done.
The book does an excellent job of telling you which shape of noodle goes best with a given sauce. This is something that the Italians take for granted that most Americans have not been taught.
I also thought the book did a nice job of teaching the reader how to make orecchiette, cavatelli, and ravioli.
If you are new to pasta making this is an excellent primer.
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My compliments to the photographer, but the content of this book is mighty thin. I thought I had finally found a book that would go beyond the basic pasta techniques and that would tell how to make noodles and dumplings. Burn my soul! This book has the basic pasta recipe along with a few recipes for sauces and such. There is nothing in this book that you won't find in a comprehensive cookbook like Betty Crocker. Spaetzle isn't even mentioned! Save your money, friends. Or wait a year until they sell the remainders for 50 cents.
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