Making Artisan Pasta, a beautiful new step-by-step guide by Aliza Green, on sale January 1

By Aliza Green | December 23, 2011

hand-stretched rich egg-yolk pasta for tortellini

Fun, Easy and Delicious--Making Artisan Pasta

MAKING ARTISAN PASTA: How to Make a World of Handmade Noodles, Stuffed Pasta, Dumplings, and More

 Homemade rules in the kitchen, and everyone from artisan bakers to canners and picklers know it. Culinary enthusiasts are exploring classic skills again, and home cooks are making homemade, hand-shaped pasta faster than you can say tagliatelle.

With simple, fresh ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions, MAKING ARTISAN PASTA (Quarry Books) teaches you how make your own fettuccine, ravioli, lasagna, and dozens of other styles of pasta and noodles by hand. The fully illustrated, step-by-step tutorials will walk you through the entire tasty process, from mixing dough, rolling, and shaping pasta through cooking, serving, and storing. Artisan pasta is fun to make and fun to eat for everyone from kids to seniors. Colorful doughs flavored with red pepper, porcini mushrooms, and asparagus and flours like buckwheat, chestnut, and rye inspire the creative cook.

Going far beyond noodles, though, this book includes tutorials on gnocchi, Chinese pot stickers, pierogi, and dozens of other world pastas.

Inside you’ll find:

  • History of pasta in China, Italy and modern day variations
  • Clear explanations of  flour, eggs and other basic ingredients a pasta artisan might use
  • Complete tutorial for making artisan-style hand-stretched pasta, the ultimate for flavor and texture
  • Special kitchen tools and suggestions for using  tools you already have
  • “Artisan Notes” providing special tips and tricks for every recipe
  • Page after page of full-color photo diagrams showing techniques for successful results
  • Comprehensive information on storage, freezing,  and more

Through author and chef Aliza Green’s expertise and encyclopedia knowledge of all things culinary, plus hundreds of gorgeous photos by acclaimed food photographer Steve Legato, MAKING ARTISAN PASTA will teach you everything there is to know about making fresh, delicious pasta in your home kitchen….and you’ll never look at the supermarket pasta aisle the same way again.

About the Author

ALIZA GREEN, author, consultant, and influential chef, has been a pasta fanatic ever since she spent a summer in Italy at age six. She studied with Marcella Hazan, from whom she learned to make fresh pasta for the Bolognese-inspired Ristorante DiLullo, where she served as Executive Chef. She studied Italian to read cookbooks and culinary publications and to work with chefs and food producers in Italy. With the help of the restaurant’s three pasta artisans, Green prepared enough fresh pasta to serve hundreds of customers daily, all cooked to order—a formidable task in a restaurant that seated more than 200. Green is the James Beard Award–winning author of ten suc­cessful food guides and cookbooks including The Fishmonger’s Apprentice (Quarry Books, 2010), Starting with Ingredients: Baking (Running Press, 2008) and Starting with Ingredients (Running Press, 2006), four Field Guides to food (Quirk, 2004-2007), Beans: More than 200 Delicious, Wholesome Recipes from Around the World (Running Press, 2004). To learn more about Green or to ask a culinary question, visit her website, www.alizagreen.com.

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 MAKING ARTISAN PASTA

How to Make a World of Handmade Noodles, Stuffed Pasta, Dumplings, and More

by Aliza Green

Quarry Books

$24.99 US / $27.99 CAN

ISBN-13: 978-1-59253-732-7