Exquisitely designed beautifully written and featuring mouthwatering photography this gorgeous tome makes the perfect gift for the pasta lover in your lifeGuardian columnist and awardwinning food writer Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italys favourite food in a practical easytouse and mouthwatering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes.Along with the recipes are short essays that weave together the history culture and the everyday life of pasta shapes from the tip to the toe of Italy. There is pasta made with water and pasta with egg shapes made by hand and those rolled a by machine the long and the short the rolled and the stretched the twisted and the stuffed the fresh and the dried. The AZ of Pasta tells you how to match pasta shapes with sauces and how to serve them.