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THE PASTA BOOK

David Joachim Marc Vetri

Recipes, Techniques, Inspirations

Unlock the secrets of making creative pasta dishes with more than 75 simple and spectacular recipes, featuring helpful QR codes to step-by-step video tutorials - from the James Beard Awardwinning author of Mastering Pasta.
In The Pasta Book, acclaimed chef Marc Vetri presents a wide range of easy to impressive pasta dinners using both dried and fresh pastas. With a dish for every shape, sauce, mood, and timeline, Vetri demystifies the process of "marrying" pasta and sauce into one harmonious dish, creating your own flavor combinations, and pairing different pastas and sauces. Vetri shares both weeknight classics and popular pastas from his restaurants, adapting his methods so home cooks can experience these acclaimed dishes in their own kitchens, with chapters including:

- Vegetable Pasta: Pici Pomodoro; Garganelli with Corn and Scallions; Spinach Gnocchi with Brown Butter and Shaved Ricotta Salata
- Seafood Pasta: Paccheri with Clams and Charred Lemon Brodo; Troccoli with Shrimp and Ginger Chili Crisp; Scallop Raviolo with Champagne
- Poultry and Game Pasta: Tagliolini with Chicken Liver Ragu; Pumpernickel Papparadelle with Duck Ragu
- Pork Pasta: Rigatoni with Fiorella Sausage Ragu; Spaghetti alla Chitarra with Basil, Poppy Seed, and Proscuitto
- Beef and Lamb Pasta: Francobolli with Short Ribs and Celery Root; Orecchiette with Lamb Merguez and Fiore Sardo

Vetri guides you through the foundations of making fresh pasta with a chapter devoted to pasta doughs and shapes like pappardelle and orecchiette, including QR codes that link to easy-to-follow technique videos. With 90 stunning photographs, The Pasta Book includes ideas to level up or simplify every recipe, so you can choose the pasta adventure you crave.

Trained in Bergamo, Italy, by some of the region's most noted chefs, Marc Vetri is the chef/owner of Vetri Ristorante, Osteria, Amis, and the forthcoming Alla Spina, all located in Philadelphia. Vetri was named one of Food & Wine's Ten Best New Chefs and received the Philadelphia Inquirer's highest restaurant rating; he also won the James Beard Award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic. Vetri has been profiled in Gourmet, Bon Appétit, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New York Times. Visit his restaurants online at: www.vetrifamily.com.

David Joachim has authored, edited, or collaborated on more than thirty-five cookbooks, including the IACP award-winning The Food Substitutions Bible and the New York Times bestsellers A Man, a Can, a Grill and Mastering the Grill, co-authored with Andrew Schloss. He lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Visit David at: www.davejoachim.com.
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Published 2025-11-04 by Clarkson Potter

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If you love pasta, which I think includes most breathing humans on the planet, this book is a must-have. It's noodles as art.

The Pasta Book is a lovingly dedicated, generous collection of straightforward fundamentals. At the core of every master is a student with a willingness to share and Marc is one of the best.

With a ball of pasta dough, Marc is an architect, a sculptor, and a painteran artist in every sense of the word. This beautiful book will soon be wavy, cockled, and covered in bits of semolina from persistent use.

Marc Vetri was my earliest experience with pasta excellence in the States. As a Philadelphian myself who loves pasta fra diavolo, I was first exposed to the wonders of true Italian cooking by Marc, who at the same time always honored the place and flavors of where we were: Philly. The combo was transformative and I use all of his books as the ultimate resource when I wanna dive in deep.

I can't believe this is real. Marc Vetri, the best pasta chef in America, is giving us all of his secrets on these pages. I've witnessed and tasted his magic for decades. Perfect pasta for everyone!

The semolina-blazed trail that legendary chef Marc Vetri has left for present and future generations of home cooks and professional chefs alike now spans countless days, nights, and decades. In his latest and greatest book thus far, The Pasta Book, his innovative methods of sharing time-honored traditions in new and deeper ways is the perfect remedy for insatiable students of the game from a true professor of pasta. . . . Bravo, brother Vetri. Beautiful work and the pasta world and the world, period, are better for it.

Marc Vetri is one of the best chefs on the planetnot just because of his extraordinary skill, but because he never stops learning. Marc is also an exceptional teacherask anyone who's had the privilege to cook alongside him. This book beautifully captures Marc's innovative spirit and his profound respect for the pasta-making tradition. It's a testament to his boundless curiosity and dedication to sharing his remarkable knowledge.