'Anyone who cooks should have Anna's books. She is, I am telling you, the best writer on Italian food there is' - Nigella Lawson
'She writes in a warm, friendly way that just makes me want to sit down and eat carbs' - Xanthe Clay, BBC Radio Four - The Food Programme, November 2015
'As beautiful as it is useful...a book you will refer to again and again' - Waitrose Kitchen magazine, November 2015
'Any cook worth their weight in penne needs a Del Conte in their kitchen' - Sunday Telegraph Tastiest Cookbooks of 2015 feature, December 2015
'If you love your pasta, then you're going to love this book. It's the bible of pasta, if you will' ITALIA magazine, January 2016
'Anna Del Conte writes cookbooks that become reading books - those you keep open on the sofa or piled beside the bed to thumb through before falling asleep' Amy Bryant, Daily Telegraph, May 2016
Nigella Lawson described Anna Del Conte's book Portrait of Pasta as 'The book that actually changed the way the English thought about Italian cooking... and the instrumental force in leading us from the land of spag bol, macaroni cheese and tinned ravioli'. Now Anna Del Conte has fully updated and revised that book, introducing many new recipes, to create Anna Del Conte On Pasta.
This is a delicious collection of 120 recipes, many of which can be cooked within minutes. The book starts with a fascinating historical account of pasta, then guides you through how to cook pasta, and explores the different types of pasta. The recipes, which come from every region of Italy, are divided into easy to navigate chapters on meat, dairy, vegetables, soups, stuffed and baked pastas.
This is a classic Italian cookbook, and will quickly prove essential in your kitchen.
Anna Del Conte is the doyenne of Italian food and cooking. The expert's expert on Italian food; she has been educating the British about Italy's finest dishes for decades and her ground-breaking books have inspired a whole generation of cooks. In 1987 she was awarded the prestigious Duchessa Maria Luigia di Parma prize for Gastronomy of Italy. Her book,The Classic Food of Northern Italy, won both the Guild of Food Writers Book Award and the Orio Vergani prize of the Accademia Italiana della Cucina in 1996. Anna was awarded the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
