The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces
By Allan Bay

Turn pasta night from drab to exciting, tired to fresh, with 175 recipes for the best and yummiest pasta sauces imaginable.Everybody loves pasta-but not if it's made the same way night after night.and Families with kids, especially, eat loads of pasta, but it's awfully easy to get stuck in a “red-sauce rut, eating one version or another of marinara sauce over and over again. Enter author Allan Bay, an expat who lives in Rome who has written some of Italy's best-selling cookbooks. Bay opens up in these pagesand a big, bold new world of pasta sauces, someand from the classic Italian repertoire,and other brilliant new creationsand of his own. They haveand all sorts of main ingredients, fromand beefand andand chickenand toand shrimpand andand clamsand to gloriousand veggiesand fromand artichokes toand zucchini. All of the sauces areand easy to prepareand and every oneand cooks up fast.The Complete Book of Pasta Saucesand includes:and Asparagus and Pine Nut SauceMeatball RagoutCioppinoPesto Sauce, plus six different pesto variationsChicken RagoutNantua Sauce with ShrimpLamb Ragout with PorcinisRoman Cauliflower SauceThere are bowls and bowls ofand kid-friendly saucesand and plenty ofand grownup sauces, too. Each recipe comes with one to threeand “Best On recommendations, along with additionaland “Also Good On ideasand that range from different shapes ofand standard wheat pasta to egg noodles, polenta, rice, and more. There are suggestions, too, for serving the variousand sauces directly on meats, poultry, or fish-something that is very common in Italy but less familiar elsewhere.This deliciously creative bookand makes pasta and pasta sauces more exciting than they've ever been before.