This paperback is a must for anyone who owns either an electric or a manual pasta machine.
While other Italian cook books tend to concentrate on sauces, this one deals with making the pasta itself and how to use your pasta machine.
It looks at tips for getting the best out of the machines themselves, which ingredients to use to give optimum results. techniques for making an authentic Italian dish, the use of herbs, spices and vegetables in pasta making.
It does have a short section on sauces and each recipe has its own nutritional information, making this a good reference book if you’re wanting to control calories.
Importantly there’s also a chapter on gluten-free pasta making.
This is the book for you if you have just bought, or are thinking of buying, either a manual or an electric pasta maker.