PASTA: THE FLIP BOOK

In this first-ever cookbook-flipbook, learn how fast and easy it is to create hand-shaped pasta by flipping your way through every knead, touch, pinch, and press of the pasta-making process. As readers flip the pages, the process of making each shape is brought to life before their eyes.

FlipWatchMakeEat...Repeat! In this first-ever cookbook-flip book, learn how fast and easy it is to create hand-shaped pasta by flipping your way through every knead, touch, pinch, and press of the pasta-making process.

Each pasta shapethere are 8 shapes to learnis brought to cinematic motion, as you flip through the pasta shaping process (check out a few GIF videos here to see the magic unfold). These simple pastas require no special equipment, no more than 3 ingredients, and can be hand-shaped in 10 minutes from dough to done. From cavatelli to orecchiette, strozzapreti to pici, once you see how easy it is, you'll soon be making homemade pasta on a Tuesday night.

Recipes include one master dough and eight sauceshalf of the sauces are quick and simple (and for many, the pasta cooks in the sauceno boiling required) and half are more Sunday supper style. With hundreds of cinema verite-style black and white photographs, plus a full color shot of each finished pasta dish, you'll be on your way to creating delicious homemade pasta, such as One-Pan Cavatelli with Herb Butter Sauce; Pici with Saffron, Clams and Lemon; and Capunti with Sunday Sauce.

The tactile, retro appeal of the flipbook package combined with evocative, mesmerizing, and practical how-to imagery of making pasta shapes by hand makes this a gifty, yet sophisticated impulse-buy or the perfect gift for that person who has everything.

JENNIFER AARONSON is the Culinary Director of Marley Spoon and the former Editorial Director of Food and Entertaining at Martha Stewart Living. She also owns Boro6 wine bar in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
LINDA PUGLIESE is a New York-based photographer who shoots food, still life, lifestyle, and travel. Her clients include Conde Nast Traveler, FoodandWine.com, Martha Stewart Living, People, Southern Living, and the Wall Street Journal. She recently shot the cookbook Healthyish by Lindsay Hunt (Abrams 2018).